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HIGHER GENUS GROMOV–WITTEN THEORY OF $\mathsf{Hilb}^{n}(\mathbb{C}^{2})$ AND $\mathsf{CohFTs}$ ASSOCIATED TO LOCAL CURVES

Part of: Projective and enumerative geometry Symplectic geometry, contact geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2019

RAHUL PANDHARIPANDE  and
HSIAN-HUA TSENG
RAHUL PANDHARIPANDE
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland; rahul@math.ethz.ch
HSIAN-HUA TSENG
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University, 100 Math Tower, 231 West 18th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA; hhtseng@math.ohio-state.edu

Abstract

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We study the higher genus equivariant Gromov–Witten theory of the Hilbert scheme of $n$ points of $\mathbb{C}^{2}$. Since the equivariant quantum cohomology, computed by Okounkov and Pandharipande [Invent. Math. 179 (2010), 523–557], is semisimple, the higher genus theory is determined by an $\mathsf{R}$-matrix via the Givental–Teleman classification of Cohomological Field Theories (CohFTs). We uniquely specify the required $\mathsf{R}$-matrix by explicit data in degree $0$. As a consequence, we lift the basic triangle of equivalences relating the equivariant quantum cohomology of the Hilbert scheme $\mathsf{Hilb}^{n}(\mathbb{C}^{2})$ and the Gromov–Witten/Donaldson–Thomas correspondence for 3-fold theories of local curves to a triangle of equivalences in all higher genera. The proof uses the analytic continuation of the fundamental solution of the QDE of the Hilbert scheme of points determined by Okounkov and Pandharipande [Transform. Groups 15 (2010), 965–982]. The GW/DT edge of the triangle in higher genus concerns new CohFTs defined by varying the 3-fold local curve in the moduli space of stable curves. The equivariant orbifold Gromov–Witten theory of the symmetric product $\mathsf{Sym}^{n}(\mathbb{C}^{2})$ is also shown to be equivalent to the theories of the triangle in all genera. The result establishes a complete case of the crepant resolution conjecture [Bryan and Graber, Algebraic Geometry–Seattle 2005, Part 1, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, 80 (American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2009), 23–42; Coates et al., Geom. Topol. 13 (2009), 2675–2744; Coates & Ruan, Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) 63 (2013), 431–478].

MSC classification

Primary: 14N35: Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants
Secondary: 53D45: Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds
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