Quantization condition from exact WKB for difference equations

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2016)180MaRDI QIDQ1638873zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor

Publication date 12 June 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.01690

zbMATH Keywords

integrable hierarchiesnonperturbative effectstopological strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: A well-motivated conjecture states that the open topological string partition function on toric geometries in the Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit is annihilated by a difference operator called the quantum mirror curve. Recently, the complex structure variables parameterizing the curve, which play the role of eigenvalues for related operators, were conjectured to satisfy a quantization condition non-perturbative in the NS parameter $hbar$. Here, we argue that this quantization condition arises from requiring single-valuedness of the partition function, combined with the requirement of smoothness in the parameter $hbar$. To determine the monodromy of the partition function, we study the underlying difference equation in the framework of exact WKB.

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