Degree-zero Donaldson–Thomas formula for Hilbert schemes of points

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Let XX be a smooth 3-fold and let L1,L2\mathscr{L}_1,\mathscr{L}_2 be line bundles on XX satisfying

L1⊗L2=KX.\mathscr{L}_1\otimes\mathscr{L}_2=\mathscr{K}_X.

Let Hilb⁡(X,points)=⨆n≥0Hilb⁡(X,n)\operatorname{Hilb}(X,\mathrm{points})=\bigsqcup_{n\geq 0}\operatorname{Hilb}(X,n) be the Hilbert scheme of points, and let O~vir\widetilde{\mathscr{O}}_{\mathrm{vir}} be the specified virtual structure sheaf. Degree-zero Donaldson–Thomas conjecture.

χ(Hilb⁡(X,points),O~vir)=S∙χ(X,qL1(TX+KX−T∗X−KX∗)(1−qL1)(1−qL2−1)).\chi\left(\operatorname{Hilb}(X,\mathrm{points}),\widetilde{\mathscr{O}}_{\mathrm{vir}}\right)=\mathsf{S}^{\bullet}\chi\left(X,\frac{q\mathscr{L}_1\left(TX+\mathscr{K}_X-T^*X-\mathscr{K}_X^*\right)}{(1-q\mathscr{L}_1)(1-q\mathscr{L}_2^{-1})}\right).

This is presented as a reformulation of a conjecture from the cited work on degree-zero Donaldson–Thomas invariants. It predicts a closed symmetric-algebra expression for the K-theoretic invariant of points on XX, but is not proved in the supplied text.

References

Primary source

Nikita Nekrasov and Andrei Okounkov, “Membranes and Sheaves”, arXiv:1404.2323 (2014).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2004–2014). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math-ph/0412008, arXiv:math/0408266.

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