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Operators from mirror curves and the quantum dilogarithm. (English) Zbl 1348.81436

Summary: Mirror manifolds to toric Calabi-Yau threefolds are encoded in algebraic curves. The quantization of these curves leads naturally to quantum-mechanical operators on the real line. We show that, for a large number of local del Pezzo Calabi-Yau threefolds, these operators are of trace class. In some simple geometries, like local \(\mathbb{P}^2\), we calculate the integral kernel of the corresponding operators in terms of Faddeev’s quantum dilogarithm. Their spectral traces are expressed in terms of multi-dimensional integrals, similar to the state-integrals appearing in three-manifold topology, and we show that they can be evaluated explicitly in some cases. Our results provide further verifications of a recent conjecture which gives an explicit expression for the Fredholm determinant of these operators, in terms of enumerative invariants of the underlying Calabi-Yau threefolds.

MSC:

81T70 Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods
14J32 Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects)
32Q25 Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects)
81T60 Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics
81R12 Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems
81Q10 Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis
81S05 Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general)
14J33 Mirror symmetry (algebro-geometric aspects)
14N35 Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects)
14H70 Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems
14H81 Relationships between algebraic curves and physics
11G55 Polylogarithms and relations with \(K\)-theory

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