The Tanaka-Thomas's Vafa-Witten invariants via surface Deligne-Mumford stacks

Abstract

We provide a definition of Vafa-Witten invariants for projective surface Deligne-Mumford stacks, generalizing the construction of Tanaka-Thomas on the Vafa-Witten invariants for projective surfaces inspired by the S-duality conjecture. We give calculations for a root stack over a general type quintic surface, and quintic surfaces with ADE singularities. The relationship between the Vafa-Witten invariants of quintic surfaces with ADE singularities and the Vafa-Witten invariants of their crepant resolutions is also discussed.

42 pages, comments are very welcome. revised according to the referee, Proposition 4.6 in the old version is corrected. Published version