Gaiotto's positivity and filtered nondegeneracy conjecture

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Let V=C[z1,…,zn]V=\mathbb C[z_1,\dots,z_n] be filtered by polynomial degree, with FNV=C[z1,…,zn]≤NF_NV=\mathbb C[z_1,\dots,z_n]_{\le N}. Let W∈SdCn∗W\in S^d\mathbb C^{n*} be a homogeneous polynomial of degree dd, and define

(P,Q)W=∫CnP(z)Q(z)‾e−∣z∣2+W(z)−W(z)‾dzdz‾.(P,Q)_W=\int_{\mathbb C^n}P(z)\overline {Q(z)}{\rm e}^{-|z|^2+W(z)-\overline{W(z)}}{\rm d}z{\rm d}\overline z.

When this sesquilinear form is filtered-nondegenerate, let ⟨ ,⟩W\langle\,,\rangle_W denote the resulting homogeneous form on C[z1,…,zn]\mathbb C[z_1,\dots,z_n]. Gaiotto's conjecture. (i) If ( , )W(\,,\,)_W is filtered-nondegenerate, then ⟨ ,⟩W\langle\,,\rangle_W is positive definite. (ii) The form ( , )W(\,,\,)_W is filtered-nondegenerate for all W∈SdCn∗W\in S^d\mathbb C^{n*}. The claim generalizes Gaiotto's proposal for quasi-homogeneous superpotentials and concerns positivity arising from Landau--Ginzburg boundary conditions for 3d free hypermultiplets. Filtered nondegeneracy is known for sufficiently generic WW, but the assertion for every homogeneous WW is not established in the supplied text; part (i) follows from part (ii) by deformation, and even follows from filtered nondegeneracy on a dense connected subset.

References

Primary source

Pavel Etingof, “On Some Special Cases of Gaiotto's Positivity Conjecture”, arXiv:2402.17174 (2024).

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