Gaiotto's positivity and filtered nondegeneracy conjecture

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 WSdCnW\in S^d\mathbb C^{n*} be a homogeneous polynomial of degree dd, and define

(P,Q)W=CnP(z)Q(z)ez2+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 WSdCnW\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.

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

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