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Main Authors: Coman, Ioana, Longhi, Pietro, Teschner, Jörg
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Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04585
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author Coman, Ioana
Longhi, Pietro
Teschner, Jörg
author_facet Coman, Ioana
Longhi, Pietro
Teschner, Jörg
contents We propose a geometric characterisation of the topological string partition functions associated to the local Calabi-Yau (CY) manifolds used in the geometric engineering of $d=4$, $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric field theories of class $\mathcal{S}$. A quantisation of these CY manifolds defines differential operators called quantum curves. The partition functions are extracted from the isomonodromic tau-functions associated to the quantum curves by expansions of generalised theta series type. It turns out that the partition functions are in one-to-one correspondence with preferred coordinates on the moduli spaces of quantum curves defined using the Exact WKB method. The coordinates defined in this way jump across certain loci in the moduli space. The changes of normalisation of the tau-functions associated to these jumps define a natural line bundle playing a key role in the geometric characterisation of the topological string partition functions proposed here.
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spellingShingle From quantum curves to topological string partition functions II
Coman, Ioana
Longhi, Pietro
Teschner, Jörg
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
We propose a geometric characterisation of the topological string partition functions associated to the local Calabi-Yau (CY) manifolds used in the geometric engineering of $d=4$, $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric field theories of class $\mathcal{S}$. A quantisation of these CY manifolds defines differential operators called quantum curves. The partition functions are extracted from the isomonodromic tau-functions associated to the quantum curves by expansions of generalised theta series type. It turns out that the partition functions are in one-to-one correspondence with preferred coordinates on the moduli spaces of quantum curves defined using the Exact WKB method. The coordinates defined in this way jump across certain loci in the moduli space. The changes of normalisation of the tau-functions associated to these jumps define a natural line bundle playing a key role in the geometric characterisation of the topological string partition functions proposed here.
title From quantum curves to topological string partition functions II
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04585