Universal formula conjecture for semistable Vafa–Witten invariants

Let SS be a smooth projective surface, let Pα(n)P^\perp_{\alpha}(n) be the Joyce–Song pair invariant for charge α=(r,c1(L),c2)\alpha=(r,c_1(L),c_2), and let χ(α(n))\chi(\alpha(n)) denote the relevant Euler characteristic. If H0,1(S)=0=H0,2(S)H^{0,1}(S)=0=H^{0,2}(S), then the universal formula conjecture. there exist rational numbers VWαi(S)\mathsf{VW}_{\alpha_i}(S) such that

Pα(n)=1,(αi=δiα)i=1:δi>0,i=1δi=1(1)!i=1(1)χ(αi(n))χ(αi(n));VWαi(S)P^\perp_{\alpha}(n)=\mathop{\sum_{\ell\ge 1,\,(\alpha_i=\delta_i\alpha)_{i=1}^\ell:}}_{\delta_i>0,\,\sum_{i=1}^\ell\delta_i=1} \frac{(-1)^\ell}{\ell!}\prod_{i=1}^\ell(-1)^{\chi(\alpha_i(n))}\chi(\alpha_i(n))\\;\mathsf{VW}_{\alpha_i}(S)

for n0n\gg0. When either H0,1(S)H^{0,1}(S) or H0,2(S)H^{0,2}(S) is nonzero, only the first term is taken:

Pr,L,c2(n)=(1)χ(α(n))1χ(α(n))VWr,L,c2(S).P^\perp_{r,L,c_2}(n)=(-1)^{\chi(\alpha(n))-1}\chi(\alpha(n))\mathsf{VW}_{r,L,c_2}(S).

These identities relate pair invariants in the strictly semistable case to Vafa–Witten invariants and are proposed as universal formulae; the source provides no resolution status.

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Yuuji Tanaka and Richard P. Thomas, “Vafa-Witten invariants for projective surfaces II: semistable case”, arXiv:1702.08488 (2018).

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