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The quantum tropical vertex

Algebraic Geometry 2023-03-03 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Gross-Pandharipande-Siebert have shown that the 2-dimensional Kontsevich-Soibelman scattering diagrams compute certain genus zero log Gromov-Witten invariants of log Calabi-Yau surfaces. We show that the qq-refined 2-dimensional Kontsevich-Soibelman scattering diagrams compute, after the change of variables q=eiq=e^{i \hbar}, generating series of certain higher genus log Gromov-Witten invariants of log Calabi-Yau surfaces. This result provides a mathematically rigorous realization of the physical derivation of the refined wall-crossing formula from topological string theory proposed by Cecotti-Vafa, and in particular can be seen as a non-trivial mathematical check of the connection suggested by Witten between higher genus open A-model and Chern-Simons theory. We also prove some new BPS integrality results and propose some other BPS integrality conjectures.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1806.11495,
  title  = {The quantum tropical vertex},
  author = {Pierrick Bousseau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.11495},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

v3: 69 pages, minor correction in Section 8.5 compared to the version published in Geometry and Topology

R2 v1 2026-06-23T02:46:14.905Z