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Three dimensional tropical correspondence formula

Symplectic Geometry 2017-04-26 v2 Mathematical Physics Algebraic Geometry Combinatorics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

A tropical curve in R3\mathbb R^{3} contributes to Gromov-Witten invariants in all genus. Nevertheless, we present a simple formula for how a given tropical curve contributes to Gromov-Witten invariants when we encode these invariants in a generating function with exponents of λ\lambda recording Euler characteristic. Our main modification from the known tropical correspondence formula for rational curves is as follows: a trivalent vertex, which before contributed a factor of nn to the count of zero-genus holomorphic curves, contributes a factor of 2sin(nλ/2)2\sin(n\lambda/2). We explain how to calculate relative Gromov-Witten invariants using this tropical correspondence formula, and how to obtain the absolute Gromov-Witten and Donaldson-Thomas invariants of some 33-dimensional toric manifolds including CP3\mathbb CP^{3}. The tropical correspondence formula counting Donaldson-Thomas invariants replaces nn by i(1+n)qn/2+i1+nqn/2i^{-(1+n)}q^{n/2}+i^{1+n}q^{-n/2}.

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@article{arxiv.1608.02306,
  title  = {Three dimensional tropical correspondence formula},
  author = {Brett Parker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.02306},
  year   = {2017}
}

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27 pages. Final version to appear in Communications in Mathematical Physics

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