Relative BPS integrality conjecture for del Pezzo surfaces

Let SS be a del Pezzo surface with boundary divisor EE, let βH2(S,Z)\beta\in\operatorname{H}_{2}(S,\mathbb Z) be an effective curve class, and set w=βEw=\beta\cdot E. Let nS[dw]Qn_{S}[dw]\in\mathbb Q be the relative BPS state counts of class dβd\beta, defined for d1d\geq 1 by extracting the multiple-cover contributions from the relative Gromov–Witten invariants.

Relative BPS integrality conjecture. For every d1d\geq 1,

nS[dw]Z.n_{S}[dw]\in\mathbb Z.

The conjecture asserts integrality of the relative BPS numbers, despite their definition through rational relative Gromov–Witten invariants and multiple-cover contributions. The supplied source does not provide evidence of a resolution, so the conjecture is recorded as open.

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Primary source

Michel van Garrel, “Local and relative BPS state counts for del Pezzo surfaces”, arXiv:1503.06581 (2015).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1503.06517.

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