Mathematical structures of non-perturbative topological string theory: from GW to DT invariants

DOI10.1007/S00220-022-04571-YarXiv2109.06878MaRDI QIDQ6377673FDOQ6377673

Iván Tulli, Murad Alim, Arpan Saha, J. Teschner

Publication date: 14 September 2021

Abstract: We study the Borel summation of the Gromov-Witten potential for the resolved conifold. The Stokes phenomena associated to this Borel summation are shown to encode the Donaldson-Thomas invariants of the resolved conifold, having a direct relation to the Riemann-Hilbert problem formulated by T. Bridgeland. There exist distinguished integration contours for which the Borel summation reproduces previous proposals for the non-perturbative topological string partition functions of the resolved conifold. These partition functions are shown to have another asymptotic expansion at strong topological string coupling. We demonstrate that the Stokes phenomena of the strong-coupling expansion encode the DT invariants of the resolved conifold in a second way. Mathematically, one finds a relation to Riemann-Hilbert problems associated to DT invariants which is different from the one found at weak coupling. The Stokes phenomena of the strong-coupling expansion turn out to be closely related to the wall-crossing phenomena in the spectrum of BPS states on the resolved conifold studied in the context of supergravity by D. Jafferis and G. Moore.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Riemann-Hilbert problems in context of PDEs (35Q15) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Integral formulas of real functions of several variables (Stokes, Gauss, Green, etc.) (26B20)

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