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most citedZero-dimensional Donaldson-Thomas invariants of Calabi-Yau 4-folds

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27 papers

math.AG2025

-theoretic pullbacks for Lagrangians on derived critical loci

Yalong Cao, Yukinobu Toda, Gufang Zhao

Given a regular function on a smooth stack, and a -shifted Lagrangian on the derived critical locus of , under fairly general hypotheses, we construct a pullback m…

math.AG2024

A degeneration formula of Donaldson-Thomas theory on local Calabi-Yau 4-folds

Yalong Cao, Gufang Zhao, Zijun Zhou

We define relative Donaldson-Thomas invariants of local log Calabi-Yau 4-folds, under the assumption that the derived Hilbert scheme on the anti-canonical divisor is a derived crit…

math.AG2023★ 2 cited

Quasimaps to quivers with potentials

Yalong Cao, Gufang Zhao

This paper is concerned with a non-compact GIT quotient of a vector space, in the presence of an abelian group action and an equivariant regular function (potential) on the quotien…

math.AG2023★ 3 cited

A Donaldson-Thomas crepant resolution conjecture on Calabi-Yau 4-folds

Yalong Cao, Martijn Kool, Sergej Monavari

Let be a finite subgroup of whose elements have age not larger than one. In the first part of this paper, we define -theoretic stable pair invariants on the…

math.AG2022★ 4 cited

Gopakumar-Vafa type invariants of holomorphic symplectic 4-folds

Yalong Cao, Georg Oberdieck, Yukinobu Toda

Using reduced Gromov-Witten theory, we define new invariants which capture the enumerative geometry of curves on holomorphic symplectic 4-folds. The invariants are analogous to the…

math.AG2022★ 4 cited

Stable pairs and Gopakumar-Vafa type invariants on holomorphic symplectic 4-folds

Yalong Cao, Georg Oberdieck, Yukinobu Toda

As an analogy to Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture on Calabi-Yau 3-folds, Klemm-Pandharipande defined Gopakumar-Vafa type invariants of a Calabi-Yau 4-fold using Gromov-Witten theory.…

math.AG2020

Gopakumar-Vafa invariants of fiber classes on Calabi-Yau 4-folds fibered over curves

Yalong Cao, Feng Qu

We prove a conjectural correspondence of Cao-Maulik-Toda which relates Gopakumar-Vafa invariants of fiber classes on a smooth projective Calabi-Yau 4-fold fibered over a curve to t…

math.AG2020★ 14 cited

Counting perverse coherent systems on Calabi-Yau 4-folds

Yalong Cao, Yukinobu Toda

Nagao-Nakajima introduced counting invariants of stable perverse coherent systems on small resolutions of Calabi-Yau 3-folds and determined them on the resolved conifold. Their inv…

math.AG2020★ 15 cited

Tautological stable pair invariants of Calabi-Yau 4-folds

Yalong Cao, Yukinobu Toda

Let be a Calabi-Yau 4-fold and a smooth divisor on it. We consider tautological complex associated with on the moduli space of Le Potier stable pairs a…

math.AG2020★ 18 cited

Stable pair invariants of local Calabi-Yau 4-folds

Yalong Cao, Martijn Kool, Sergej Monavari

In 2008, Klemm-Pandharipande defined Gopakumar-Vafa type invariants of a Calabi-Yau 4-fold using Gromov-Witten theory. Recently, Cao-Maulik-Toda proposed a conjectural descript…

math.AG2020★ 18 cited

Gopakumar-Vafa type invariants on Calabi-Yau 4-folds via descendent insertions

Yalong Cao, Yukinobu Toda

The Gopakumar-Vafa type invariants on Calabi-Yau 4-folds (which are non-trivial only for genus zero and one) are defined by Klemm-Pandharipande from Gromov-Witten theory, and their…

math.AG2019★ 19 cited

Curve counting via stable objects in derived categories of Calabi-Yau 4-folds

Yalong Cao, Yukinobu Toda

In our previous paper with Maulik, we proposed a conjectural Gopakumar-Vafa (GV) type formula for the generating series of stable pair invariants on Calabi-Yau (CY) 4-folds. The pu…

math.AG2019★ 37 cited

Curve counting and DT/PT correspondence for Calabi-Yau 4-folds

Yalong Cao, Martijn Kool

Recently, Cao-Maulik-Toda defined stable pair invariants of a compact Calabi-Yau 4-fold . Their invariants are conjecturally related to the Gopakumar-Vafa type invariants of …

math.AG2019★ 20 cited

Stable pairs and Gopakumar-Vafa type invariants for Calabi-Yau 4-folds

Yalong Cao, Davesh Maulik, Yukinobu Toda

As an analogy to Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture on CY 3-folds, Klemm-Pandharipande defined GV type invariants on CY 4-folds using GW theory and conjectured their integrality. In this pa…

math.DG2018★ 42 cited

Orientability of moduli spaces of Spin(7)-instantons and coherent sheaves on Calabi-Yau 4-folds

Yalong Cao, Jacob Gross, Dominic Joyce

This paper concerns orientability of moduli spaces of Spin(7)-instantons on compact 8-manifolds with Spin(7)-structure for the Lie groups SU() and U(), and of moduli spac…

math.AG2018★ 7 cited

Counting zero-dimensional subschemes in higher dimensions

Yalong Cao, Martijn Kool

Consider zero-dimensional Donaldson-Thomas invariants of a toric threefold or toric Calabi-Yau fourfold. In the second case, invariants can be defined using a tautological insertio…

math.AG2018★ 9 cited

Counting conics on sextic 4-folds

Yalong Cao

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…

math.AG2018★ 41 cited

Genus zero Gopakumar-Vafa type invariants for Calabi-Yau 4-folds

Yalong Cao, Davesh Maulik, Yukinobu Toda

In analogy with the Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture on CY 3-folds, Klemm and Pandharipande defined GV type invariants on Calabi-Yau 4-folds using Gromov-Witten theory and conjectured the…

math.AG2018★ 15 cited

Genus zero Gopakumar-Vafa type invariants for Calabi-Yau 4-folds II: Fano 3-folds

Yalong Cao

In analogy with the Gopakumar-Vafa (GV) conjecture on Calabi-Yau (CY) 3-folds, Klemm and Pandharipande defined GV type invariants on Calabi-Yau 4-folds using Gromov-Witten theory a…

math.AG2017★ 50 cited

Zero-dimensional Donaldson-Thomas invariants of Calabi-Yau 4-folds

Yalong Cao, Martijn Kool

We study Hilbert schemes of points on a smooth projective Calabi-Yau 4-fold . We define invariants by integrating the Euler class of a tautological vector bundle…

math.AG2016★ 6 cited

Remarks on Kawamata's effective non-vanishing conjecture for manifolds with trivial first Chern classes

Yalong Cao, Chen Jiang

Kawamata proposed a conjecture predicting that every nef and big line bundle on a smooth projective variety with trivial first Chern class has nontrivial global sections. We verify…

math.AG2015

Mukai flops and Plücker type formulas for hyper-Kähler manifolds

Yalong Cao, Naichung Conan Leung

We study the intersection theory of complex Lagrangian subvarieties inside holomorphic symplectic manifolds. In particular, we study their behaviour under Mukai flops and give a ri…

math.DG2015★ 1 cited

Remarks on mirror symmetry of Donaldson-Thomas theory for Calabi-Yau 4-folds

Yalong Cao, Naichung Conan Leung

Motivated by Strominger-Yau-Zaslow's mirror symmetry proposal and Kontsevich's homological mirror symmetry conjecture, we study mirror phenomena (in A-model) of certain results fro…

math.AG2015★ 7 cited

Relative Donaldson-Thomas theory for Calabi-Yau 4-folds

Yalong Cao, Naichung Conan Leung

Given a complex 4-fold with an (Calabi-Yau 3-fold) anti-canonical divisor , we study relative Donaldson-Thomas invariants for this pair, which are elements in the Donaldson-…