Integrality of Framing and Geometric Origin of 2-functions

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Vadim Vologodsky, Albert Schwarz, Johannes Walcher

Publication date: 23 February 2017

Abstract: We say that a formal power series $sum{a}_n{z}^n$ with rational coefficients is a 2-function if the numerator of the fraction $a_{n/p}-p^2{a}_n$ is divisible by $p^2$ for every prime number $p$. One can prove that 2-functions with rational coefficients appear as building block of BPS generating functions in topological string theory. Using the Frobenius map we define 2-functions with coefficients in algebraic number fields. We establish two results pertaining to these functions. First, we show that the class of 2-functions is closed under the so-called framing operation (related to compositional inverse of power series). Second, we show that 2-functions arise naturally in geometry as $q$-expansion of the truncated normal function associated with an algebraic cycle extending a degenerating family of Calabi-Yau 3-folds.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Period matrices, variation of Hodge structure; degenerations (32G20) Arithmetic mirror symmetry (11G42)

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