English
Related papers

Related papers: A note on BPS structures and Gopakumar-Vafa invari…

200 papers

We define and study refined Gopakumar-Vafa invariants of contractible curves in complex algebraic 3-folds, alongside the cohomological Donaldson--Thomas theory of finite-dimensional Jacobi algebras. These Gopakumar-Vafa invariants can be…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Ben Davison

In this paper, we present an investigation of the Gopakumar-Vafa (GV) invariant, a curve-counting integral invariant associated with Calabi-Yau threefolds, as proposed by physicists. Building upon the conjectural definition of the GV…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Lutian Zhao

This is the second part of our ongoing project on the relations between Gopakumar-Vafa BPS invariants (GV) and quantum K-theory (QK) on the Calabi--Yau threefolds (CY3). We show that on CY3 a genus zero quantum K-invariant can be written as…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-07 You-Cheng Chou , Y. -P. Lee

Recently, a universal formula for a non-holomorphic modular completion of the generating functions of refined BPS indices in various theories with $N=2$ supersymmetry has been suggested. It expresses the completion through the holomorphic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Sergei Alexandrov

Whenever available, refined BPS indices provide considerably more information on the spectrum of BPS states than their unrefined version. Extending earlier work on the modularity of generalized Donaldson-Thomas invariants counting D4-D2-D0…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Sergei Alexandrov , Jan Manschot , Boris Pioline

We give an alternate proof of the integrality conjecture of genus zero Gopakumar-Vafa type invariants on semi-positive varieties using algebraic geometry. The main technique is to relate Gopakumar-Vafa type invariants to quantum…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-03 You-Cheng Chou

We study the BPS invariants of the preferred Calabi-Yau resolution of ADE polyhedral singularities C^3/G given by Nakamura's G-Hilbert schemes. Genus 0 BPS invariants are defined by means of the moduli space of torsion sheaves as proposed…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-07 Jim Bryan , Amin Gholampour

Topological string theory partition function gives rise to Gromov-Witten invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants and 5D BPS indices. Using the remodeling conjecture, which connects Topological Recursion with topological string theory for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Sibasish Banerjee , Alexander Hock , Olivier Marchal

This is the first of two papers which construct a purely algebraic counterpart to the theory of Gromov-Witten invariants (at all genera). These Gromov-Witten type invariants depend on a Calabi-Yau A-infinity category, which plays the role…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kevin J. Costello

In this paper, we propose a mathematical definition of a new ``numerical invariants" of Calabi--Yau 3-folds from stable sheaves of dimension one, which is motivated by the Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture in M-theory. Moreover, we show that for…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-20 Shinobu Hosono , Masa-Hiko Saito , Atsushi Takahashi

The multi-Banana configuration $\widehat{F}_{mb}$ is a local Calabi-Yau threefold of Schoen type. Namely, $\widehat{F}_{mb}$ is a conifold resolution of $\widehat{I}_v \times_{\bf{D}} \widehat{I}_w$, where $\widehat{I}_v \to {\bf{D}}$ is an…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Nina Morishige

We compute Gromov-Witten (GW) and Donaldson-Thomas (DT) invariants (and also descendant invariants) for local CY 4-folds over Fano 3-folds, V_5 and V_22 up to degree 3. We use torus localization for GW invariants computation, and use…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Kiryong Chung , Sanghyeon Lee , Joonyeong Won

We find a direct relation between quiver representation theory and open topological string theory on a class of toric Calabi-Yau manifolds without compact four-cycles, also referred to as strip geometries. We show that various quantities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-25 Miłosz Panfil , Piotr Sułkowski

We provide a physical definition of new homological invariants $\mathcal{H}_a (M_3)$ of 3-manifolds (possibly, with knots) labeled by abelian flat connections. The physical system in question involves a 6d fivebrane theory on $M_3$ times a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-25 Sergei Gukov , Du Pei , Pavel Putrov , Cumrun Vafa

BPS invariants are computed, capturing topological invariants of moduli spaces of semi-stable sheaves on rational surfaces. For a suitable stability condition, it is proposed that the generating function of BPS invariants of a Hirzebruch…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 Jan Manschot

Using the Fredholm setup of [12], we study genus zero (and higher) relative Gromov-Witten invariants with maximum tangency of symplectic log Calabi-Yau fourfolds. In particular, we give a short proof of [23, Conjecture 6.2] that expresses…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Mohammad Farajzadeh-Tehrani

Generating functions of BPS invariants for N=4 U(r) gauge theory on a Hirzebruch surface with r=2 and 3 are computed. The BPS invariants provide the Betti numbers of moduli spaces of semi-stable sheaves. The generating functions for r=2 are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-19 Jan Manschot

We propose a new way to compute the genus zero Gopakumar-Vafa invariants for two families of non-toric non-compact Calabi-Yau threefolds that admit simple flops: Reid's Pagodas, and Laufer's examples. We exploit the duality between M-theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 Andrés Collinucci , Andrea Sangiovanni , Roberto Valandro

This paper contains some applications of Bridgeland-Douglas stability conditions on triangulated categories, and Joyce's work on counting invariants of semistable objects, to the study of birational geometry. We introduce the notion of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-16 Yukinobu Toda

We conjecture a formula for the generating function of genus one Gromov-Witten invariants of the local Calabi-Yau manifolds which are the total spaces of splitting bundles over projective spaces. We prove this conjecture in several special…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Xiaowen Hu