Scattering diagrams, theta functions, and refined tropical curve counts

@article{Mandel2021ScatteringDT,
title={Scattering diagrams, theta functions, and refined tropical curve counts},
author={Travis Mandel},
journal={Journal of the London Mathematical Society},
year={2021}
}
• Travis Mandel
• Published 2021
• Mathematics
• Journal of the London Mathematical Society
Working over various graded Lie algebras and in arbitrary dimension, we express scattering diagrams and theta functions in terms of counts of tropical curves/disks, weighted by multiplicities given in terms of iterated Lie brackets. Over the tropical vertex group, our tropical curve counts are known to give certain descendant log Gromov-Witten invariants. Working over the quantum torus algebra yields theta functions for quantum cluster varieties, and our tropical description sets up for… Expand
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