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On asymptotics and resurgent structures of enumerative Gromov-Witten invariants

  • 1. Lisboa Univ. (Portugal). Inst. Superior Tecnico (IST)
  • 2. Geneve Univ. (Switzerland). Dept. de Physique Theoretique et Section de Mathematiques
  • 3. DESY Hamburg (Germany). Theory Group

Description

Making use of large-order techniques in asymptotics and resurgent analysis, this work addresses the growth of enumerative Gromov-Witten invariants - in their dependence upon genus and degree of the embedded curve - for several different threefold Calabi-Yau toric-varieties. In particular, while the leading asymptotics of these invariants at large genus or at large degree is exponential, at combined large genus and degree it turns out to be factorial. This factorial growth has a resurgent nature, originating via mirror symmetry from the resurgent-transseries description of the B-model free energy. This implies the existence of nonperturbative sectors controlling the asymptotics of the Gromov-Witten invariants, which could themselves have an enumerative-geometry interpretation. The examples addressed include: the resolved conifold; the local surfaces local P2 and local P1 x P1; the local curves and Hurwitz theory; and the compact quintic. All examples suggest very rich interplays between resurgent asymptotics and enumerative problems in algebraic geometry.

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Imprint Pagination
63 p.
ISSN
0418-9833
Report number
DESY--16-089

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Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
Germany
INIS RN
47119812
Subject category
S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING;
Descriptors DEI
ALGEBRA; ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LOCALITY; SMOOTH MANIFOLDS; TOPOLOGY
Descriptors DEC
GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MATHEMATICS