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Colored HOMFLYPT counts holomorphic curves

Symplectic Geometry 2021-01-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Geometric Topology

Abstract

We compute the contribution of all multiple covers of an isolated rigid embedded holomorphic annulus, stretching between Lagrangians, to the skein-valued count of open holomorphic curves in a Calabi-Yau 3-fold. The result agrees with the predictions from topological string theory and we use it to prove the Ooguri-Vafa formula that identifies the colored HOMFLYPT invariants of a link with a count of holomorphic curves ending on the conormal Lagrangian of the link in the resolved conifold. This generalizes our previous work which proved the result for the fundamental color.

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@article{arxiv.2101.00619,
  title  = {Colored HOMFLYPT counts holomorphic curves},
  author = {Tobias Ekholm and Vivek Shende},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00619},
  year   = {2021}
}

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8 pages

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