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Categorification of Donaldson-Thomas invariants by Perverse Sheaves

Algebraic Geometry 2012-10-18 v2

Abstract

We show that there is a natural perverse sheaf on the moduli space of semistable sheaves on a smooth projective Calabi-Yau 3-fold which is locally the perverse sheaf of vanishing cycles for a local Chern-Simons functional. This gives us a cohomology theory whose Euler numbers are Donaldson-Thomas invariants.

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@article{arxiv.1210.3910,
  title  = {Categorification of Donaldson-Thomas invariants by Perverse Sheaves},
  author = {Young-Hoon Kiem and Jun Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.3910},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

It was brought to the authors' attention that there is an important sign issue that was overlooked, so this paper is withdrawn by the authors