Quantization condition from exact WKB for difference equations

Abstract

A well-motivated conjecture states that the open topological string partition function on toric geometries in the Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit is annihilated by a difference operator called the quantum mirror curve. Recently, the complex structure variables parameterizing the curve, which play the role of eigenvalues for related operators, were conjectured to satisfy a quantization condition non-perturbative in the NS parameter $\hslash$. Here, we argue that this quantization condition arises from requiring single-valuedness of the partition function, combined with the requirement of smoothness in the parameter $\hslash$. To determine the monodromy of the partition function, we study the underlying difference equation in the framework of exact WKB.

35 pages. v2 : minor changes, clarifications and references added. v3: typos corrected

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