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Curve-counting invariants for crepant resolutions

Algebraic Geometry 2014-07-02 v2

Abstract

We construct curve counting invariants for a Calabi-Yau threefold YY equipped with a dominant birational morphism π:YX\pi:Y \to X. Our invariants generalize the stable pair invariants of Pandharipande and Thomas which occur for the case when π:YY\pi:Y\to Y is the identity. Our main result is a PT/DT-type formula relating the partition function of our invariants to the Donaldson-Thomas partition function in the case when YY is a crepant resolution of XX, the coarse space of a Calabi-Yau orbifold X\mathcal{X} satisfying the hard Lefschetz condition. In this case, our partition function is equal to the Pandharipande-Thomas partition function of the orbifold X\mathcal{X}. Our methods include defining a new notion of stability for sheaves which depends on the morphism π\pi . Our notion generalizes slope stability which is recovered in the case where π\pi is the identity on YY. Our proof is a generalization of Bridgeland's proof of the PT/DT correspondence via the Hall algebra and Joyce's integration map.

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@article{arxiv.1208.0884,
  title  = {Curve-counting invariants for crepant resolutions},
  author = {Jim Bryan and David Steinberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.0884},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

In this version, Jim Bryan has been added as an author and the required boundedness result for our stability condition has been added. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1002.4374 by other authors

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