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Categorification of Donaldson-Thomas invariants via Perverse Sheaves

Algebraic Geometry 2016-03-22 v5

Abstract

We show that there is a perverse sheaf on a fine moduli space of stable sheaves on a smooth projective Calabi-Yau 3-fold, which is locally the perverse sheaf of vanishing cycles for a local Chern-Simons functional, possibly after taking an etale Galois cover. This perverse sheaf lifts to a mixed Hodge module and gives us a cohomology theory which enables us to define the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants mathematically.

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@article{arxiv.1212.6444,
  title  = {Categorification of Donaldson-Thomas invariants via Perverse Sheaves},
  author = {Young-Hoon Kiem and Jun Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.6444},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Completely rewritten. 94 pages