Mathematical Research Letters

Volume 26 (2019)

Number 5

Counting conics on sextic $4$-folds

Pages: 1343 – 1357

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2019.v26.n5.a5

Author

Yalong Cao (Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, Japan)

Abstract

We study rational curves of degree two on a smooth sextic $4$-fold and their counting invariant defined using Donaldson–Thomas theory of Calabi–Yau $4$-folds. By comparing it with the corresponding Gromov–Witten invariant, we verify a conjectural relation between them proposed by the author, Maulik and Toda.

Received 18 November 2018

Accepted 25 December 2018

Published 27 November 2019