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Conformal TBA for resolved conifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-07-14 v3 Mathematical Physics Algebraic Geometry math.MP Number Theory

Abstract

We revisit the Riemann-Hilbert problem determined by Donaldson-Thomas invariants for the resolved conifold and for other small crepant resolutions. While this problem can be recast as a system of TBA-type equations in the conformal limit, solutions are ill-defined due to divergences in the sum over infinite trajectories in the spectrum of D2-D0-brane bound states. We explore various prescriptions to make the sum well-defined, show that one of them reproduces the existing solution in the literature, and identify an alternative solution which is better behaved in a certain limit. Furthermore, we show that a suitable asymptotic expansion of the τ\tau function reproduces the genus expansion of the topological string partition function for any small crepant resolution. As a by-product, we conjecture new integral representations for the triple sine function, similar to Woronowicz' integral representation for Faddeev's quantum dilogarithm.

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@article{arxiv.2106.12006,
  title  = {Conformal TBA for resolved conifolds},
  author = {Sergei Alexandrov and Boris Pioline},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.12006},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

25+14 pages; added proof for integral representation of the double sine function and a similar conjecture for the triple sine; version accepted for publication in Annales Henri Poincar\'e

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