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As an analogy to Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture on Calabi-Yau 3-folds, Klemm-Pandharipande defined Gopakumar-Vafa type invariants of a Calabi-Yau 4-fold $X$ using Gromov-Witten theory. When $X$ is holomorphic symplectic, Gromov-Witten invariants…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Yalong Cao , Georg Oberdieck , Yukinobu Toda

In our previous paper with Maulik, we proposed a conjectural Gopakumar-Vafa (GV) type formula for the generating series of stable pair invariants on Calabi-Yau (CY) 4-folds. The purpose of this paper is to give an interpretation of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-20 Yalong Cao , Yukinobu Toda

We present a method to construct the extended K\"ahler cone of any Calabi-Yau threefold by using Gopakumar-Vafa invariants to identify all geometric phases that are related by flops or Weyl reflections. In this way we obtain the K\"ahler…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-29 Naomi Gendler , Ben Heidenreich , Liam McAllister , Jakob Moritz , Tom Rudelius

Given any smooth germ of a threefold flopping contraction, we first give a combinatorial characterisation of which Gopakumar-Vafa (GV) invariants are non-zero, by prescribing multiplicities to the walls in the movable cone. On the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Navid Nabijou , Michael Wemyss

A version of the Donaldson-Thomas invariants of a Calabi-Yau threefold is proposed as a conjectural mathematical definition of the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants. These invariants have a local version, which is verified to satisfy the required…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sheldon Katz

The Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture is defined and studied for the local geometry of a curve in a Calabi-Yau 3-fold. The integrality predicted in Gromov-Witten theory by the Gopakumar-Vafa BPS count is verified in a natural series of cases in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Jim Bryan , Rahul Pandharipande

We prove a closed formula for leading Gopakumar- Vafa BPS invariants of local Calabi-Yau geometries given by the canonical line bundles of toric Fano surfaces. It shares some similar features with Goettsche-Yau-Zaslow formula: Connection…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-17 Shuai Guo , Jian Zhou

Gromov-Witten, Gopakumar-Vafa, and Donaldson-Thomas invariants of Calabi-Yau threefolds are compared. In certain situations, the Donaldson-Thomas invariants are very easy to handle, sometimes easier than the other invariants. This point is…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sheldon Katz

We prove a conjectural correspondence of Cao-Maulik-Toda which relates Gopakumar-Vafa invariants of fiber classes on a smooth projective Calabi-Yau 4-fold fibered over a curve to the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants of a smooth fiber under an…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yalong Cao , Feng Qu

We propose a combined mechanism to realize both winding inflation and de Sitter uplifts. We realize the necessary structure of competing terms in the scalar potential not via tuning the vacuum expectation values of the complex structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Federico Carta , Alessandro Mininno , Nicole Righi , Alexander Westphal

We show that the moduli stacks of semistable sheaves on smooth projective varieties are analytic locally on their coarse moduli spaces described in terms of representations of the associated Ext-quivers with convergent relations. When the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Yukinobu Toda

This work develops new ideas and tools to establish wall-crossing in Calabi-Yau four categories as originally conjectured by Gross-Joyce-Tanaka. In the process, I set up some necessary new language, including a natural refinement of Joyce's…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Arkadij Bojko

We show that the non-commutative widths for flopping curves on smooth 3-folds introduced by Donovan-Wemyss are described by Katz's genus zero Gopakumar-Vafa invariants.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Yukinobu Toda

In this paper, we introduce the notion of parabolic stable pairs on Calabi-Yau 3-folds and invariants counting them. By applying the wall-crossing formula developed by Joyce-Song, Kontsevich-Soibelman, we see that they are related to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-26 Yukinobu Toda

Supersymmetric D-branes supported on the complex two-dimensional base $S$ of the local Calabi-Yau threefold $K_S$ are described by semi-stable coherent sheaves on $S$. Under suitable conditions, the BPS indices counting these objects (known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-15 Guillaume Beaujard , Jan Manschot , Boris Pioline

We develop a virtual cycle approach towards generalized Donaldson-Thomas theory of Calabi-Yau threefolds. Let $\mathcal{M}$ be the moduli stack of Gieseker semistable sheaves of fixed topological type on a Calabi-Yau threefold $W$. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Young-Hoon Kiem , Jun Li , Michail Savvas

The conifold is a basic example of a noncompact Calabi-Yau threefold that admits a simple flop, and in M-theory, gives rise to a 5d hypermultiplet at low energies, realized by an M2-brane wrapped on the vanishing sphere. We develop a novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Andrés Collinucci , Mario De Marco , Andrea Sangiovanni , Roberto Valandro

This paper describes Gopakumar-Vafa (GV) invariants associated to $cA_n$ singularities. We (1) generalize GV invariants to crepant partial resolutions of $cA_n$ singularities, (2) show that generalized GV invariants also satisfy Toda's…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Hao Zhang

We consider the refined $\mathrm{SU}(r)$ Vafa-Witten partition function of a smooth projective surface with non-zero holomorphic 2-form. This partition function has a vertical contribution, expressible in terms of nested Hilbert schemes.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Noah Arbesfeld , Martijn Kool , Ties Laarakker

By exploiting new mathematical relations between Pandharipande-Thomas (PT) invariants, closely related to Gopakumar-Vafa (GV) invariants, and rank 0 Donaldson-Thomas (DT) invariants counting D4-D2-D0 BPS bound states, we rigorously compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Sergei Alexandrov , Soheyla Feyzbakhsh , Albrecht Klemm , Boris Pioline , Thorsten Schimannek