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$K_2$ and quantum curves

Algebraic Geometry 2022-05-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics K-Theory and Homology math.MP Number Theory

Abstract

A 2015 conjecture of Codesido-Grassi-Mari\~no in topological string theory relates the enumerative invariants of toric CY 3-folds to the spectra of operators attached to their mirror curves. We deduce two consequences of this conjecture for the integral regulators of K2K_2-classes on these curves, and then prove both of them; the results thus give evidence for the CGM conjecture. (While the conjecture and the deduction process both entail forms of local mirror symmetry, the consequences/theorems do not: they only involve the curves themselves.) Our first theorem relates zeroes of the higher normal function to the spectra of the operators for curves of genus one, and suggests a new link between analysis and arithmetic geometry. The second theorem provides dilogarithm formulas for limits of regulator periods at the maximal conifold point in moduli of the curves.

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@article{arxiv.2110.08482,
  title  = {$K_2$ and quantum curves},
  author = {Charles F. Doran and Matt Kerr and Soumya Sinha Babu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.08482},
  year   = {2022}
}

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51 pages, 1 figure; minor revisions

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