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The proper Landau-Ginzburg potential is the open mirror map

Algebraic Geometry 2024-02-20 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

The mirror dual of a smooth toric Fano surface XX equipped with an anticanonical divisor EE is a Landau-Ginzburg model with superpotential, W. Carl-Pumperla-Siebert give a definition of the the superpotential in terms of tropical disks using a toric degeneration of the pair (X,E)(X,E). When EE is smooth, the superpotential is proper. We show that this proper superpotential equals the open mirror map for outer Aganagic-Vafa branes in the canonical bundle KXK_X, in framing zero. As a consequence, the proper Landau-Ginzburg potential is a solution to the Lerche-Mayr Picard-Fuchs equation. Along the way, we prove a generalization of a result about relative Gromov-Witten invariants by Cadman-Chen to arbitrary genus using the multiplication rule of quantum theta functions. In addition, we generalize a theorem of Hu that relates Gromov-Witten invariants of a surface under a blow-up from the absolute to the relative case. One of the two proofs that we give introduces birational modifications of a scattering diagram. We also demonstrate how the Hori-Vafa superpotential is related to the proper superpotential by mutations from a toric chamber to the unbounded chamber of the scattering diagram.

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@article{arxiv.2204.12249,
  title  = {The proper Landau-Ginzburg potential is the open mirror map},
  author = {Tim Gräfnitz and Helge Ruddat and Eric Zaslow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12249},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

69 pages, sections 3.1 and 4.4 added, further improvements based on report at AiM