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The spectrum of BPS states in type IIA string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold famously jumps across codimension-one walls in complexified K\"ahler moduli space, leading to an intricate chamber structure. The Split Attractor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-14 Pierrick Bousseau , Pierre Descombes , Bruno Le Floch , Boris Pioline

We study BPS spectra of D-branes on local Calabi-Yau threefolds $\mathcal{O}(-p)\oplus\mathcal{O}(p-2)\to \mathbb{P}^1$ with $p=0,1$, corresponding to $\mathbb{C}^3/\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ and the resolved conifold. Nonabelianization for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Sibasish Banerjee , Pietro Longhi , Mauricio Romo

We study the refined and unrefined crystal/BPS partition functions of D6-D2-D0 brane bound states for all toric Calabi-Yau threefolds without compact 4-cycles and some non-toric examples. They can be written as products of (generalized)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-08 Jiakang Bao , Yang-Hui He , Ali Zahabi

The use of supersymmetric localisation has recently led to modular covariant expressions for certain integrated correlators of half-BPS operators in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with a general classical gauge group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Daniele Dorigoni , Michael B. Green , Congkao Wen , Haitian Xie

We present a unifying theme relating BPS partition functions and superconformal indices. In the case with complex SUSY central charges (as in N=2 in d=4 and N=(2,2) in d=2) the known results can be reinterpreted as the statement that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-22 Amer Iqbal , Cumrun Vafa

Given a quiver algebra A with relations defined by a superpotential, this paper defines a set of invariants of A counting framed cyclic A-modules, analogous to rank-1 Donaldson-Thomas invariants of Calabi-Yau threefolds. For the special…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-07 Balazs Szendroi

In [MT2] the Vafa-Witten theory of complex projective surfaces is lifted to oriented $\mathbb C^*$-equivariant cohomology theories. Here we study the K-theoretic refinement. It gives rational functions in $t^{1/2}$ invariant under…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Richard P. Thomas

It has recently been conjectured that the closed topological string wave function computes a grand canonical partition function of BPS black hole states in 4 dimensions: Z_BH=|psi_top|^2. We conjecture that the open topological string wave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Mina Aganagic , Andrew Neitzke , Cumrun Vafa

Recently an exact duality between topological string and the spectral theory of operators constructed from mirror curves to toric Calabi-Yau threefolds has been proposed. At the same time an exact quantization condition for the cluster…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-27 Alba Grassi , Jie Gu

In theories with $N=2$ supersymmetry on $R^{3,1}$, BPS bound states can decay across walls of marginal stability in the space of Coulomb branch parameters, leading to discontinuities in the BPS indices $\Omega(\gamma,u)$. We consider a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-01 Sergei Alexandrov , Gregory W. Moore , Andrew Neitzke , Boris Pioline

Using wall-crossing formulae and the theory of mock modular forms we derive a holomorphic anomaly equation for the modified elliptic genus of two M5-branes wrapping a rigid divisor inside a Calabi-Yau manifold. The anomaly originates from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Murad Alim , Babak Haghighat , Michael Hecht , Albrecht Klemm , Marco Rauch , Thomas Wotschke

We construct a statistical model that reproduces the BPS partition function of D4-D2-D0 bound states on a class of toric Calabi-Yau three-folds. The Calabi-Yau three-folds we consider are obtained by adding a compact two-cycle to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Takahiro Nishinaka , Yutaka Yoshida

The quiver Yangians were originally defined for the quiver and superpotential from string theory on general toric Calabi-Yau threefolds, and serve as BPS algebras of these systems. Their characters reproduce the unrefined BPS indices, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-18 Wei Li

The BPS state spectrum in four-dimensional gauge theories or string vacua with N=2 supersymmetries is well known to depend on the values of the parameters or moduli at spatial infinity. The BPS index is locally constant, but discontinuous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-29 Boris Pioline

In this paper, we use an M-theory model to conjecture the refined reminiscence of the OSV formula connecting the refined topological string partition function with the refined BPS states partition function for the toric Calabi-Yau…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Haitao Liu , Jie Yang

We calculate the generating functions of BPS indices using their modular properties in Type II and M-theory compactifications on compact genus one fibered CY 3-folds with singular fibers and additional rational sections or just…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-07 Cesar Fierro Cota , Albrecht Klemm , Thorsten Schimannek

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

We find a new infinite class of infinite-dimensional algebras acting on BPS states for non-compact toric Calabi-Yau threefolds. In Type IIA superstring compactification on a toric Calabi-Yau threefold, the D-branes wrapping holomorphic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-22 Wei Li , Masahito Yamazaki

We work on a projective threefold $X$ which satisfies the Bogomolov-Gieseker conjecture of Bayer-Macr\`i-Toda, such as $\mathbb P^3$ or the quintic threefold. We prove certain moduli spaces of 2-dimensional torsion sheaves on $X$ are smooth…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Soheyla Feyzbakhsh , Richard P. Thomas

We derive a $U$-duality invariant formula for the degeneracies of BPS multiplets in a D1-D5 system for toroidal compactification of the type II string. The elliptic genus for this system vanishes, but it is found that BPS states can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Juan Maldacena , Gregory Moore , Andrew Strominger