Pandharipande–Thomas rationality conjecture for descendent partition functions

Let MM be a Calabi–Yau threefold, let β\beta be a nonzero curve class, and let τki(γi)\tau_{k_i}(\gamma_i) be descendent insertions. Denote the associated PT partition function by ZPT(M;qi=1rτki(γi))β\operatorname{Z_{PT}}\left(M;q\mid\prod_{i=1}^r\tau_{k_i}(\gamma_i)\right)_\beta.

Pandharipande–Thomas rationality conjecture. The partition function ZPT(M;qi=1rτki(γi))β\operatorname{Z_{PT}}\left(M;q\mid\prod_{i=1}^r\tau_{k_i}(\gamma_i)\right)_\beta is the Laurent expansion of a rational function in qq.

This is the descendent version of PT rationality and is used as a prerequisite for comparing GW and PT theories; the source attributes it to Pandharipande and Thomas.

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Primary source

Yinbang Lin and Sz-Sheng Wang, “Gromov–Witten/Pandharipande–Thomas correspondence via conifold transitions”, arXiv:2310.18170 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1901.03014, arXiv:1409.4576.

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