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Exact Quantization Conditions, Toric Calabi-Yau and Nonperturbative Topological String

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-01-24 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

We establish the precise relation between the Nekrasov-Shatashvili (NS) quantization scheme and Grassi-Hatsuda-Marino conjecture for the mirror curve of arbitrary toric Calabi-Yau threefold. For a mirror curve of genus gg, the NS quantization scheme leads to gg quantization conditions for the corresponding integrable system. The exact NS quantization conditions enjoy a self S-duality with respect to Planck constant \hbar and can be derived from the Lockhart-Vafa partition function of nonperturbative topological string. Based on a recent observation on the correspondence between spectral theory and topological string, another quantization scheme was proposed by Grassi-Hatsuda-Marino, in which there is a single quantization condition and the spectra are encoded in the vanishing of a quantum Riemann theta function. We demonstrate that there actually exist at least gg nonequivalent quantum Riemann theta functions and the intersections of their theta divisors coincide with the spectra determined by the exact NS quantization conditions. This highly nontrivial coincidence between the two quantization schemes requires infinite constraints among the refined Gopakumar-Vafa invariants. The equivalence for mirror curves of genus one has been verified for some local del Pezzo surfaces. In this paper, we generalize the correspondence to higher genus, and analyze in detail the resolved C3/Z5\mathbb{C}^3/\mathbb{Z}_5 orbifold and several SU(N)SU(N) geometries. We also give a proof for some models at =2π/k\hbar=2\pi/k.

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@article{arxiv.1606.07330,
  title  = {Exact Quantization Conditions, Toric Calabi-Yau and Nonperturbative Topological String},
  author = {Kaiwen Sun and Xin Wang and Min-xin Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.07330},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

91 pages, 14 figures, v2: journal version, some small corrections

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