Conformal TBA for resolved conifolds

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Main Authors: Alexandrov, Sergei, Pioline, Boris
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author Alexandrov, Sergei
Pioline, Boris
author_facet Alexandrov, Sergei
Pioline, Boris
contents We revisit the Riemann-Hilbert problem determined by Donaldson-Thomas invariants for the resolved conifold and for other small crepant resolutions. While this problem can be recast as a system of TBA-type equations in the conformal limit, solutions are ill-defined due to divergences in the sum over infinite trajectories in the spectrum of D2-D0-brane bound states. We explore various prescriptions to make the sum well-defined, show that one of them reproduces the existing solution in the literature, and identify an alternative solution which is better behaved in a certain limit. Furthermore, we show that a suitable asymptotic expansion of the $τ$ function reproduces the genus expansion of the topological string partition function for any small crepant resolution. As a by-product, we conjecture new integral representations for the triple sine function, similar to Woronowicz' integral representation for Faddeev's quantum dilogarithm.
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spellingShingle Conformal TBA for resolved conifolds
Alexandrov, Sergei
Pioline, Boris
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Algebraic Geometry
Number Theory
We revisit the Riemann-Hilbert problem determined by Donaldson-Thomas invariants for the resolved conifold and for other small crepant resolutions. While this problem can be recast as a system of TBA-type equations in the conformal limit, solutions are ill-defined due to divergences in the sum over infinite trajectories in the spectrum of D2-D0-brane bound states. We explore various prescriptions to make the sum well-defined, show that one of them reproduces the existing solution in the literature, and identify an alternative solution which is better behaved in a certain limit. Furthermore, we show that a suitable asymptotic expansion of the $τ$ function reproduces the genus expansion of the topological string partition function for any small crepant resolution. As a by-product, we conjecture new integral representations for the triple sine function, similar to Woronowicz' integral representation for Faddeev's quantum dilogarithm.
title Conformal TBA for resolved conifolds
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Algebraic Geometry
Number Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.12006