Jiang's multiple-cover conjecture for twisted Vafa–Witten invariants

Fix a μr\mu_r-gerbe SS{\mathfrak S}\to S, a class c\mathbf c, and sufficiently large mm. Let Pc,tw(m){\mathcal P}^{\perp,\operatorname{tw}}_{\mathbf c}(m) be the twisted stable-pair invariant defined by virtual localization, and let ci\mathbf c_i correspond to classes αi=δiα\alpha_i=\delta_i\alpha with δi>0\delta_i>0 and i=1δi=1\sum_{i=1}^{\ell}\delta_i=1.

Jiang's twisted multiple-cover conjecture. If H0,1(S)=H0,2(S)=0H^{0,1}(S)=H^{0,2}(S)=0, there exist rational numbers VWαitw(S)\operatorname{VW}^{\operatorname{tw}}_{\alpha_i}({\mathfrak S}) such that

Pc,tw(m)=1, (αi=δiα)i=1:δi>0, i=1δi=1(1)!i=1(1)χ(ci(m))χ(ci(m))VWcitw(S).{\mathcal P}^{\perp,\operatorname{tw}}_{\mathbf c}(m)=\sum_{\substack{\ell\geq1,\ (\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(\mathbf c_i(m))}\cdot\chi(\mathbf c_i(m))\cdot\operatorname{VW}^{\operatorname{tw}}_{\mathbf c_i}({\mathfrak S}).

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:

Pc,tw(m)=(1)χ(c(m))1χ(c(m))VWctw(S).{\mathcal P}^{\perp,\operatorname{tw}}_{\mathbf c}(m)=(-1)^{\chi(\mathbf c(m))-1}\cdot\chi(\mathbf c(m))\cdot\operatorname{VW}^{\operatorname{tw}}_{\mathbf c}({\mathfrak S}).

This conjecture defines twisted Vafa–Witten invariants through a multiple-cover expansion of stable-pair invariants. The paper states that it proves equality of the relevant invariant theories for K3 gerbes, but the source does not explicitly provide a resolution status for the conjecture in this span.

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Yunfeng Jiang and Hsian-Hua Tseng, “A proof of all ranks S-duality conjecture for K3 surfaces”, arXiv:2003.09562 (2022).

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