English

Counts of (tropical) curves in $E\times \mathbb{P}^1$ and Feynman integrals

Algebraic Geometry 2019-05-24 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We study generating series of Gromov-Witten invariants of E×P1E\times\mathbb{P}^1 and their tropical counterparts. Using tropical degeneration and floor diagram techniques, we can express the generating series as sums of Feynman integrals, where each summand corresponds to a certain type of graph which we call a pearl chain. The individual summands are --- just as in the case of mirror symmetry of elliptic curves, where the generating series of Hurwitz numbers equals a sum of Feynman integrals --- complex analytic path integrals involving a product of propagators (equal to the Weierstrass-\wp-function plus an Eisenstein series). We also use pearl chains to study generating functions of counts of tropical curves in ET×PT1E_{\mathbb{T}}\times\mathbb{P}^1_\mathbb{T} of so-called leaky degree.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1812.04936,
  title  = {Counts of (tropical) curves in $E\times \mathbb{P}^1$ and Feynman integrals},
  author = {Janko Böhm and Christoph Goldner and Hannah Markwig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.04936},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

26 pages, 12 figures. We thank an anonymous referee for pointing out a mistake which we fixed in this version