Three Dimensional Tropical Correspondence Formula

Abstract

A tropical curve in (Formula presented.) contributes to Gromov–Witten invariants in all genus. Nevertheless, we present a simple formula for how a given tropical curve contributes to Gromov–Witten invariants when we encode these invariants in a generating function with exponents of (Formula presented.) recording Euler characteristic. Our main modification from the known tropical correspondence formula for rational curves is as follows: a trivalent vertex, which before contributed a factor of n to the count of zero-genus holomorphic curves, contributes a factor of (Formula presented.). We explain how to calculate relative Gromov–Witten invariants using this tropical correspondence formula, and how to obtain the absolute Gromov–Witten and Donaldson–Thomas invariants of some 3-dimensional toric manifolds including (Formula presented.). The tropical correspondence formula counting Donaldson–Thomas invariants replaces n by (Formula presented.)