From Finite-Node Conifold Geometry to BPS Structures I: Algebraic State Data

TL;DR

This paper extracts and formalizes the intrinsic algebraic state data from finite-node conifold degenerations, linking geometric, Hodge-theoretic, and categorical structures.

Contribution

It introduces the algebraic state data $(V_ ext{Sigma}, E_ ext{Sigma}, c_ ext{Sigma})$ unifying finite-node geometry with BPS and wall-crossing theories.

Findings

Defined the finite localized quotient and nodewise coupling space.

Proved compatibility of state variables with mixed-Hodge and categorical realizations.

Established the algebraic state data as the first layer connecting geometry to BPS structures.

Abstract

Let $\pi:X\to \Delta$ be a one-parameter degeneration whose central fiber $X_0$ is a complex threefold with finitely many ordinary double points $\Sigma=\{p_1,\dots,p_r\}\subset X_0$. Associated with this degeneration is the corrected finite-node perverse extension, together with its mixed-Hodge-module refinement and a finite-node schober datum whose perverse-sheaf shadow is identified with the corrected perverse sheaf $\mathcal P$. The purpose of the present paper is to extract from these finite-node geometric, extension-theoretic, mixed-Hodge, and categorical inputs the intrinsic algebraic state data carried by the degeneration. More precisely, we isolate the finite localized quotient $Q_\Sigma:=\bigoplus_{k=1}^r i_{k*}\Q_{\{p_k\}}$, the nodewise coupling space $E_\Sigma:=\Ext^1_{\Perv(X_0;\Q)}(Q_\Sigma,IC_{X_0})$, its canonical nodewise decomposition $E_\Sigma\cong\bigoplus_{k=1}^r \Q e_k$, and the coefficient vector $c_\Sigma=(c_1,\dots,c_r)\in\Q^r$ defined by $[\mathcal P]_{\mathrm{perv}}=\sum_{k=1}^r c_k e_k$. We then prove that these state variables are compatible with both the mixed-Hodge-module lift and the schober realization of $\mathcal P$, so that the same finite-node architecture appears simultaneously in perverse, mixed-Hodge, and categorical form. The resulting package $(V_\Sigma,E_\Sigma,c_\Sigma)$ is the intrinsic algebraic state data attached to the finite-node conifold degeneration. It provides the first algebraic layer in the passage from finite-node geometry to later incidence, quiver, stability, BPS-spectral, and wall-crossing structures.