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Universal covers and the GW/Kronecker correspondence

Algebraic Geometry 2011-11-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The tropical vertex is an incarnation of mirror symmetry found by Gross, Pandharipande and Siebert. It can be applied to m-Kronecker quivers K(m) (together with a result of Reineke) to compute the Euler characteristics of the moduli spaces of their (framed) representations in terms of Gromov-Witten invariants (as shown by Gross and Pandharipande). In this paper, we study a possible geometric picture behind this correspondence, in particular constructing rational tropical curves from subquivers of the universal covering quiver of K(m). Additional motivation comes from the physical interpretation of m-Kronecker quivers in the context of quiver quantum mechanics (especially work of F. Denef).

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@article{arxiv.1011.4897,
  title  = {Universal covers and the GW/Kronecker correspondence},
  author = {Jacopo Stoppa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.4897},
  year   = {2011}
}

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33 pages, 8 figures. Completely revised, published version

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