On the descendent Gromov-Witten theory of a K3 surface
Algebraic Geometry
2025-12-10 v2
Abstract
We study the reduced descendent Gromov-Witten theory of K3 surfaces in primitive curve classes. We present a conjectural closed formula for the stationary theory, which generalizes the Bryan-Leung formula. We also prove a new recursion that allows to remove descendent insertions of in many instances. Together this yields an efficient way to compute a large class of invariants (modulo the conjecture on the stationary part). As a corollary we conjecture a surprising polynomial structure which underlies the Gromov-Witten invariants of the K3 surface.
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@article{arxiv.2308.09074,
title = {On the descendent Gromov-Witten theory of a K3 surface},
author = {Georg Oberdieck},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.09074},
year = {2025}
}
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21 pages