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Classical Weight-Four L-value Ratios as Sums of Calabi--Yau Invariants
by Philip Candelas, Xenia de la Ossa, Joseph McGovern
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Joseph McGovern · Xenia de la Ossa |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07107v2 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | May 19, 2025 |
| Date submitted: | Jan. 7, 2025, 3:17 p.m. |
| Submitted by: | McGovern, Joseph |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
We revisit the series solutions of the attractor equations of 4d N=2 supergravities obtained by Calabi--Yau compactifications previously studied in Candelas, Kuusela, and McGovern (2021). While only convergent for a restricted set of black hole charges, we find that they are summable with Pad\'e resummation providing a suitable method. By specialising these solutions to rank-two attractors, we obtain many conjectural identities of the type discovered in CKM. These equate ratios of weight-four special L-values with an infinite series whose summands are formed out of genus-0 Gromov--Witten invariants. We also present two new rank-two attractors which belong to moduli spaces each interesting in their own right. Each moduli space possesses two points of maximal unipotent monodromy. One has already been studied by Hosono and Takagi, and we discuss issues stemming from the associated L-function having nonzero rank.
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In the paper two new rank-2 attractors are found and discussed. Further, the remarkable conjectural number theoretical identity 2.41 is verified numerically to large orders. This identity relates L-values to Gromov-Witten invariants. One nice addition in this paper is the use of Pade approximants to extend the range of such formulas that can be studied.
There is a short but sufficient Section 2 with the introductory concepts, and the rest of the paper is well-written and readable. I recommend the paper for publication as it stands.
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Strengths
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The paper reports on (numerical) evidence of a conjectural remarkable identity between L-function values on the one hand and suitably evaluated Mellin transforms of modular forms on the other hand, which in enumerative geometry corresponds to a relationship between GW invariants and point counts over finite fields of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
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The paper reports on newly discovered attractor points of in families of Calabi-Yau threefolds.
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To carry out the numerical checks of the conjectured identities and to reach higher numerical precision, the authors use Padé's approximation as an innovative tool in this context. This technique may prove useful in similar contexts in the future as well.
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From a conceptual point of view, the paper does not offer deep new insights. Nevertheless, the results can be useful for future investigations as any new example is relevant in this demanding research field.
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As the authors state themselves, there are some weaknesses in the precession of the numerical evidence.
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