Quasi-modularity and holomorphic anomaly equation for the twisted Gromov-Witten theory: $\mathcal{O}(3)$ over $\mathbb{P}^2$
Xin Wang

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This paper establishes the quasi-modularity and derives the holomorphic anomaly equation for the twisted Gromov-Witten theory of the line bundle 3 over the projective plane, advancing understanding in enumerative geometry.
Contribution
It proves the quasi-modularity property and formulates the holomorphic anomaly equation for this specific twisted Gromov-Witten theory.
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Proved quasi-modularity of the theory.
Derived the holomorphic anomaly equation.
Enhances understanding of enumerative invariants.
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In this paper, we prove quasi-modularity property for the twisted Gromov-Witten theory of over . Meanwhile, we derive its holomorphic anomaly equation.
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Quasi-modularity and holomorphic anomaly equation for the twisted Gromov-Witten theory: over
Xin Wang
Department of Mathematics
Shandong University
Jinan, China
Abstract.
In this paper, we prove quasi-modularity property for the twisted Gromov-Witten theory of over . Meanwhile, we derive its holomorphic anomaly equation.
Contents
1. Introduction
Let be a smooth compact Calabi-Yau threefold, denote
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to be the genus-, degree Gromov-Witten invariants, where is the virtual fundamental class of the moduli space of stable map (c.f. [12] and [16]). Define
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to be the genus- generating funtions. Then there are two predictions from mirror symmetry:
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There is a finitely generated subring of “quasi-modular objects”
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such that for all
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satisfies a recursion formula, which is called holomorphic anomaly equation. i.e.
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where is the modular completion of .
In general, it is usually very difficult to compute the Gromov-Witten invariants for compact Calabi-Yau threefold. Recently, it is proved that these two properties are satisfied for Quintic 3-fold (Ref. [9]). Instead, the twisted Gromov-Witten theory is much easier and also expected to satisfy the two properties in the above predictions. Many examples such as local has been studied (Ref. [10], [3] and [4]). In this paper, inspired by the calculations in [9], we discuss one simple example over and prove the quasi-modularity property and holomorphic anomaly equation.
The reason why we are interested in this twisted theory over is: it has close relation with geometry of cubic elliptic curve, since the zeros of the generic section defines a cubic elliptic curve.
Our main theorem is
Theorem 1.1**.**
The formal twisted theory over satisfies
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Quasi-modularity property: the complex degree part is a quasi modular form of modular group with weight with valued in .
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The holomorphic anomaly equation:
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where is the mirror map (see section 3). is the second Eisenstein series. and are the gluing maps between moduli space of curves.
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Remark 1.2**.**
Our theorem is somehow parallel to the quasi modularity and holomorphic anomaly equation of elliptic curve proved in [14]. The main difference of the quasi modularity of twisted theory over and elliptic curve is about the modular ring: one is , the other is . The associated holomorphic anomaly equation is the same shape.
This paper is organised as follows: In section 2, we review some basic knowledge in twisted Gromov-Witten theory. In section 3, we focus on the genus-0 twisted Gromov-Witten theory of the example over and the computation of matrix. In section 4 and section 5, we prove the finite generation and quasi modularity property of twisted Gromov-Witten theory of the example over . In section 6, we prove the associated holomorphic anomaly equation.
Acknowledgements. The authors would like to special thank Shuai Guo and Felix Janda for discussing Givental theory and Calabi-Yau geometry. The results are obtained during the visit of the author in University of Michigan. The author would like thank professor Melissa Liu and Yongbin Ruan for their help during the visit in Columbia University and University of Michigan. The author is partially supported by NSFC grant 11601279.
2. Preliminary on twisted Gromov-Witten theory
Let be a smooth projective variety, is a holomorphic vector bundle over . is the moduli space of stable maps to of genus-, with markings, degree . We consider the universal stable maps over
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Set the K-theoretical push forward
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Let be an invertible multiplicative character class. For any , the twisted paring is defined by
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and the correlator is defined by
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Then the Cohomological field theory with unit is our twisted theory. Similarly, we can define the (decedant) twisted genus- GW invariants by
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In general, there are many different type of twisted theory associated to a holomorphic vector bundle over a smooth projective variety . In this paper, we study a certain type of twisted theory, called formal theory (c.f. [10]). As an example, we give the formal theory associated to over .
Example 2.1**.**
Consider the action on the base , with action
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then this torus action has a natural lift to the total space by
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denote the associated equivariant parameter of the torus action , then taking the specialization , where . The invertible multiplier character class is the equivariant Euler class (taking specialization). Then we obtain the associated formal twisted theory.
2.1. Genus-0 twisted Gromov-Witten theory
The genus-0 twisted GW invariants was introduced and studied in [2] and [1]. There are two important ingredients in genus-0 twisted theory: one is the twisted Lagrange cone, the other one is the quantum differential equation.
2.1.1. Twisted Lagarian cone
Assume is a linear basis of . A generic element in the Lagrangian cone has the form
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where . By string equation, dilaton equation and genus-0 topological recursion relation, Givental proved the Lagrangian cone has very special geometry (c.f. [8]):
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is a cone at the origin
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Each tangent space is tangent to the cone exactly along
This implies that
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The cone is determined by big function:
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Each tangent space is a module with basis .
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where operator is defined by 2-pt function
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2.1.2. Quantum differential equation
Quantum differential equation at point has the form
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By genus-0 topological recursion relation, the two point function is always a fundamental solution of the QDE (1). Near the semisimple point , there is a formal solution of the form , where is unique up to some constant matrix of power series of : , where all (c.f. [7]).
Remark 2.2**.**
In general, there is no relation between these two solutions. In some good cases, for example, the full equi-variant theory of a smooth toric variety. These 2 solution can be related by localization and quantum Riemann-Roch. The ambiguity of the matrix can be uniquely determined by quantum Riemann-Roch (c.f. [7].).
2.2. Higher genus twisted Gromov-Witten invariants.
Most examples of twisted theory we are interested are semi-simple. The semisimplicity of our examples can be seen from the proof. So we can directly apply Givental-Teleman classification theorem ([17]) to compute higher genus twisted GW invariants from genus-0 twisted GW invariants. Formally, the formula is (for precise formula, see[15])
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where is the topological part of . It is a graph sum formula. All the contributions in the graph sum are expressed in terms of matrix.
So if we want to compute higher genus twisted GW invariants, the key point is to compute the matrix here. Before compute it, we should first know where matrix comes from and its geometric meaning. The original proof in [17] relies heavily on the topological structure of the moduli space of curves. For equivariant Gromov-Witten theory, there is a more geometric way to get the matrix. For example, for smooth toric variety, first taking localization, then contract the unstable rational components to get stable graphs, in this process, we get a matrix , which comes from the contribution of all the unstable rational components. Then using quantum Riemann-Roch theorem, string and dilaton equations, we get the marix.
3. Twisted theory over
In this section, we consider the formal twisted theory associated to over .
3.1. Classical equivariant theory for
In this subsection, we compute equivariant theory for , where the action is given by
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then the classical equivariant cohomology ring is
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where under the lift of the torus action to , which satisfy . Choose a flat basis of . The twisted paring by twisted bundle is: any ,
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From now on, for simplicity, we specialize the equivariant parameter by . Then the twisted paring matrix under basis is
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The algebra is semisimple. It has a canonical basis
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satisfying the properties of idempotent of the semisimple algebra:
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It is easy to compute
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and its norm
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3.2. function and mirror theorem
First, the correlator of the twisted theory associated to over now is defined to be
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In the following, we consider the associated shifted CohFT
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with initial valuation
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To compute matrix, we should use another family of elements in the twisted Lagrangian cone , which is a hypergeometric series.
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with , . A very important property of the function is: it is the solution of Picard-Fuchs equation
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where . Take paring with normalized fixed point basis , we can replace with , then the Picard-Fuchs equation becomes
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3.3. Computation of
Via genus-0 mirror theorem (c.f. [6] and [13]),
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where is the mirror map. By localization and quantum Riemann-Roch theorem (c.f. [2]), we have the relation between operator and operator,
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where
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which comes from contribution of quantum Riemann-Roch theorem. Thus satisfies Picard-Fuchs equation
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with initial condition i.e.
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where . By looking at coefficient of in the equation (3).
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where . Then by looking at the coefficients of , we can get all the recursively by solving the Picard-Fuchs equation and initial conditions. For example, here we list for .
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In general, we have the following property of
Proposition 3.1**.**
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Proof.
For simplicity, we write
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then the Picard-Fuchs equation becomes
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with initial condition
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where
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Notice
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Observing that the coefficient of in equation (5) gives us
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for any .
Then we solve the equation (5) by induction, assume any ,
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then
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After integration, we have
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Then the proposition 3.1 follows from the following initial condition which will be proved by proposition 3.2 and lemma 3.3 via oscillatory integral and its asymptotic expansion.
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∎
3.4. Oscillatory integral and asymptotic expansion
111The argument in this section is similar to the Appendix A in [11].
Now we consider the Landau-Ginzburg potential for the equivariant twisted theory over ,
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Now we consider the oscillatory integral
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where is the Lefschetz thimble in a sub-torus in
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We consider the following 3 local charts of the sub-torus
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then we have the following proposition, which gives the relation between the and oscillatory integral.
Proposition 3.2**.**
For , the derivative of has the asymptotic expansion
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with
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Proof.
For simplicity, we only prove for . In the local chart , the oscillatory integral becomes:
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In the above, we use integration by parts repeatedly and the vanishing of the integration equals to zero at the ends of the Lefchetz thimble.
Notice that
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Then we have
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Here we use the standard asymptotic expansion of Gamma function:
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in complex domain as uniformly on , is given in advance.
∎
Lemma 3.3**.**
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Proof.
Now we compute the oscillatory integral using coordinates .
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Notice that so at , we have
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In the second step in the above, we use the replacement . The last step follows from the asymptotic expansion of Gamma function (6). ∎
3.5. Quantum differential equation
The quantum differential equation has the form , where only action on , not on . For our use, we write it in terms of . At point , the quantum differential equation becomes
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where and . Assume
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Via Birkhoff factorization, we obtain
Lemma 3.4**.**
The quantum differential matrix
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where for any
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Proof.
Via Genus-0 mirror theorem (c.f.[6] and [13]), we have
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Taking derivative along
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So we get
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then taking derivatives along recursively, we obtain the
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∎
From symmetry of the quantum produc and character polynomial of matrix , we get following relations among the entries of matrix .
Lemma 3.5**.**
Let , then
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Proof.
The equations are exactly the Zinger-Zagier relation (c.f. [18]). Now we give the proof of equation . Let
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then
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The function satisfies PF equation
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It is equivalent to
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It is easy to compute the left hand side of the above equation is
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Thus lies in the tangent space of the twisted Lagrangian cone. By the expansion
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we have
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then comparing the coefficient of in the equation (7), we get equation . ∎
4. Finite generation property
4.1. Basic generators
Define the following degree generator
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Lemma 4.1**.**
For generators and , we have
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Proof.
The first equation just follows from in Lemma3.5. The second one follows easily by induction from the following identities
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∎
4.2. Total matrix
Together the quantum differential equation (1) and the relation between operator and operator, we obtain the recursion relation of total matrix.
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where . From the recursion formula of matrix, we obtain the important property of matrix
Proposition 4.2**.**
For any ,
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Proof.
The first one is just a restatement of proposition 3.1. The first two columns of (8) give us
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Then the recursion relation for is
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By using equation (4) and equations in lemma 3.5, we get
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Notice that
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Combining with proposition 3.1, we prove the proposition. ∎
4.3. Finite generation property
Theorem 4.3**.**
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where means the complex cohomological degree part.
Proof.
For simplicity, we first compute the contribution of the trivial stable graph to :
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Recall
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so
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then the degree term equals to
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For general genus-, marking stable graph , the associated contribution of in Givental-Teleman graph sum formula is
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On each vertex, the contribution is
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On the legs, the contribution is
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On the kappa tails, the contribution is
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On the edges, the contribution is
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where is the inverse matrix of the paring matrix 2. Notice that
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Assume the kappa tails contributes degree algebraic cohomological classes. Then we can analysis each factor in the contribution of to : The power of is
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The power of is
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The rest coefficients lies in the the ring
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Lastly, since the graph sum formula is symmetric to any index , so after taking summation, the factors become some rational numbers. ∎
5. Quasi-modularity property
5.1. Review of quasi-modular forms of
Let
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be the cubic AGM theta functions (c.f. [5]). The ring of modular form and quasi-modular form of is
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where are the Eisenstein series of weight 2,4,6 respectively.
Remark 5.1**.**
By computing finitely many Fourier coefficients, we can check that , and is another set of generators of the ring of modular form of of weight 2,4 and 6 respectively.
Since the ring of quasi-modular form is closed under the derivative operator , then by comparing finitely many Fourier coefficient, we get the following identities.
Lemma 5.2**.**
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Proof.
If is a modular form of weight and level for some character , then the Serre derivative
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is a modular form of weight and level for the same character. Computing finitely many Fourier coefficient, we find the identities. ∎
5.2. Relate generators to quasi-modular form
Recall that
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and
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On the other hand, the cubic AGM theta function
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Naturally we take the identification
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then
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Moreover, we have the following lemma
Lemma 5.3**.**
Under the identification (10), the variable is exactly the mirror map
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Proof.
By definition, satisfies the differential equation
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Using lemma 5.2, the differential equation (12) simplifies to
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Since has no constant term when written in terms of , this implies that . ∎
Now we can relate the basic generators to the quasi-modular from of .
Lemma 5.4**.**
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Proof.
By lemma 5.2
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The second and third ones follow from lemma5.2 and equations (11). ∎
Remark 5.5**.**
From lemma 5.4, we see that
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is another set of generators of the ring of modular form of . And
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is another set of generators of the ring of quasi-modular form of .
5.3. Proof of quasi-modularity property of the twisted theory over
First, we study the relations between basic generators and modular forms. Taking in the theorem 4.3, combining the lemma 5.4, we obtain the following quasi-modularity property for twisted theory over .
Corollary 5.6**.**
For -twisted theory over , the degree part of is a cycle-valued quasi modular form of with weight .
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Remark 5.7**.**
For other degree parts, we can also express the coefficients as the rational function of the generators of quasi-modular form of ring .
6. Holomorphic anomaly equation
In this section, we prove the holomorphic anomaly equation. This part is similar as the proof in [10] for the case of local . The key point is the following proposition:
Proposition 6.1**.**
For matrix,
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For matrix,
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Proof.
Equation (13) follows from equation (9) and lemma 5.4. Equation (14) just follows from equation (13). ∎
Using proposition 6.1 and Givental-Teleman classification theorem, we obtain
Theorem 6.2**.**
For the formal twisted theory over , the holomorphic anomaly equation holds
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Proof.
By Teleman-Givental theorem, can be expressed as a graph sum formula. Taking derivative along , using Leibniz’s rule, together with proposition 6.1, we prove the theorem. ∎
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