We exploit the critical structure on the Quot scheme $\text {Quot}_{{{\mathbb {A}}}^3}({\mathscr {O}}^{\oplus r}\!,n)$ , in particular the associated symmetric obstruction theory, in order to study rank r K-theoretic Donaldson-Thomas (DT) invariants of the local Calabi-Yau $3$ -fold ${{\mathbb {A}}}^3$ . We compute the associated partition function as a plethystic exponential, proving a conjecture proposed in string theory by Awata-Kanno and Benini-Bonelli-Poggi-Tanzini. A crucial step in the proof is the fact, nontrival if $r>1$ , that the invariants do not depend on the equivariant parameters of the framing torus $({{\mathbb {C}}}^\ast )^r$ . Reducing from K-theoretic to cohomological invariants, we compute the corresponding DT invariants, proving a conjecture of Szabo. Reducing further to enumerative DT invariants, we solve the higher rank DT theory of a pair $(X,F)$ , where F is an equivariant exceptional locally free sheaf on a projective toric $3$ -fold X. As a further refinement of the K-theoretic DT invariants, we formulate a mathematical definition of the chiral elliptic genus studied in physics. This allows us to define elliptic DT invariants of ${{\mathbb {A}}}^3$ in arbitrary rank, which we use to tackle a conjecture of Benini-Bonelli-Poggi-Tanzini.
We introduce and study a surface defect in four dimensional gauge theories supporting nested instantons with respect to the parabolic reduction of the gauge group at the defect. This is engineered from a D3/D7-branes system on a non compact Calabi-Yau threefold X. For X = T 2 × T * C g,k , the product of a two torus T 2 times the cotangent bundle over a Riemann surface C g,k with marked points, we propose an effective theory in the limit of small volume of C g,k given as a comet shaped quiver gauge theory on T 2 , the tail of the comet being made of a flag quiver for each marked point and the head describing the degrees of freedom due to the genus g. Mathematically, we obtain for a single D7-brane conjectural explicit formulae for the virtual equivariant elliptic genus of a certain bundle over the moduli space of the nested Hilbert scheme of points on the affine plane. A connection with elliptic cohomology of character varieties and an elliptic version of modified Macdonald polynomials naturally arises.
We study the moduli space of SU(4) invariant BPS conditions in supersymmetric gauge theory on non-commutative C 4 by means of an ADHM-like quiver construction and we classify the invariant solutions under the natural toric action in terms of solid partitions. In the orbifold case C 4 /G, G being a finite subgroup of SU(4), the classification is given in terms of coloured solid partitions. The statistical weight for their counting is defined through the associated equivariant cohomological gauge theory. We explicitly compute its partition function on C 4 and C 2 × (C 2 /Z 2 ) which conjecturally provides the corresponding orbifold Donaldson-Thomas invariants.
We introduce and study a surface defect in four-dimensional gauge theories supporting nested instantons with respect to the parabolic reduction of the gauge group at the defect. This is engineered from a $$\mathrm{{D3/D7}}$$ D 3 / D 7 -branes system on a non-compact Calabi–Yau threefold X. For $$X=T^2\times T^*{{\mathcal {C}}}_{g,k}$$ X = T 2 × T ∗ C g , k , the product of a two torus $$T^2$$ T 2 times the cotangent bundle over a Riemann surface $${{\mathcal {C}}}_{g,k}$$ C g , k with marked points, we propose an effective theory in the limit of small volume of $${\mathcal C}_{g,k}$$ C g , k given as a comet-shaped quiver gauge theory on $$T^2$$ T 2 , the tail of the comet being made of a flag quiver for each marked point and the head describing the degrees of freedom due to the genus g. Mathematically, we obtain for a single $$\mathrm{{D7}}$$ D 7 -brane conjectural explicit formulae for the virtual equivariant elliptic genus of a certain bundle over the moduli space of the nested Hilbert scheme of points on the affine plane. A connection with elliptic cohomology of character varieties and an elliptic version of modified Macdonald polynomials naturally arises.
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