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Elliptic non-Abelian Donaldson-Thomas invariants of $\mathbb{C}^3$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-07-31 v4

Abstract

We compute the elliptic genus of the D1/D7 brane system in flat space, finding a non-trivial dependence on the number of D7 branes, and provide an F-theory interpretation of the result. We show that the JK-residues contributing to the elliptic genus are in one-to-one correspondence with coloured plane partitions and that the elliptic genus can be written as a chiral correlator of vertex operators on the torus. We also study the quantum mechanical system describing D0/D6 bound states on a circle, which leads to a plethystic exponential formula that can be connected to the M-theory graviton index on a multi-Taub-NUT background. The formula is a conjectural expression for higher-rank equivariant K-theoretic Donaldson-Thomas invariants on C3\mathbb{C}^3.

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@article{arxiv.1807.08482,
  title  = {Elliptic non-Abelian Donaldson-Thomas invariants of $\mathbb{C}^3$},
  author = {Francesco Benini and Giulio Bonelli and Matteo Poggi and Alessandro Tanzini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.08482},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

v3: typos corrected, refs added; v4: published version