Virtual refinements of the Vafa-Witten formula
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| author | Göttsche, Lothar Kool, Martijn |
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| contents | We conjecture a formula for the generating function of virtual $χ_y$-genera of moduli spaces of rank 2 sheaves on arbitrary surfaces with holomorphic 2-form. Specializing the conjecture to minimal surfaces of general type and to virtual Euler characteristics, we recover (part of) a formula of C. Vafa and E. Witten.
These virtual $χ_y$-genera can be written in terms of descendent Donaldson invariants. Using T. Mochizuki's formula, the latter can be expressed in terms of Seiberg-Witten invariants and certain explicit integrals over Hilbert schemes of points. These integrals are governed by seven universal functions, which are determined by their values on $\mathbb{P}^2$ and $\mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1$. Using localization we calculate these functions up to some order, which allows us to check our conjecture in many cases.
In an appendix by H. Nakajima and the first named author, the virtual Euler characteristic specialization of our conjecture is extended to include $μ$-classes, thereby interpolating between Vafa-Witten's formula and Witten's conjecture for Donaldson invariants. |
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| spellingShingle | Virtual refinements of the Vafa-Witten formula Göttsche, Lothar Kool, Martijn Algebraic Geometry High Energy Physics - Theory Differential Geometry 14D20, 14D21, 14J60, 14J80, 14J81 We conjecture a formula for the generating function of virtual $χ_y$-genera of moduli spaces of rank 2 sheaves on arbitrary surfaces with holomorphic 2-form. Specializing the conjecture to minimal surfaces of general type and to virtual Euler characteristics, we recover (part of) a formula of C. Vafa and E. Witten. These virtual $χ_y$-genera can be written in terms of descendent Donaldson invariants. Using T. Mochizuki's formula, the latter can be expressed in terms of Seiberg-Witten invariants and certain explicit integrals over Hilbert schemes of points. These integrals are governed by seven universal functions, which are determined by their values on $\mathbb{P}^2$ and $\mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1$. Using localization we calculate these functions up to some order, which allows us to check our conjecture in many cases. In an appendix by H. Nakajima and the first named author, the virtual Euler characteristic specialization of our conjecture is extended to include $μ$-classes, thereby interpolating between Vafa-Witten's formula and Witten's conjecture for Donaldson invariants. |
| title | Virtual refinements of the Vafa-Witten formula |
| topic | Algebraic Geometry High Energy Physics - Theory Differential Geometry 14D20, 14D21, 14J60, 14J80, 14J81 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.07196 |