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Resurgent Transseries and the Holomorphic Anomaly: Nonperturbative Closed Strings in Local \({\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2}\)

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The holomorphic anomaly equations describe B-model closed topological strings in Calabi–Yau geometries. Having been used to construct perturbative expansions, it was recently shown that they can also be extended past perturbation theory by making use of resurgent transseries. These yield formal nonperturbative solutions, showing integrability of the holomorphic anomaly equations at the nonperturbative level. This paper takes such constructions one step further by working out in great detail the specific example of topological strings in the mirror of the local \({\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2}\) toric Calabi–Yau background, and by addressing the associated (resurgent) large-order analysis of both perturbative and multi-instanton sectors. In particular, analyzing the asymptotic growth of the perturbative free energies, one finds contributions from three different instanton actions related by \({\mathbb{Z}_3}\) symmetry, alongside another action related to the Kähler parameter. Resurgent transseries methods then compute, from the extended holomorphic anomaly equations, higher instanton sectors and it is shown that these precisely control the asymptotic behavior of the perturbative free energies, as dictated by resurgence. The asymptotic large-order growth of the one-instanton sector unveils the presence of resonance, i.e., each instanton action is necessarily joined by its symmetric contribution. The structure of different resurgence relations is extensively checked at the numerical level, both in the holomorphic limit and in the general nonholomorphic case, always showing excellent agreement with transseries data computed out of the nonperturbative holomorphic anomaly equations. The resurgence relations further imply that the string free energy displays an intricate multi-branched Borel structure, and that resonance must be properly taken into account in order to describe the full transseries solution.

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  1. Theory Division, Department of Physics, CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    Ricardo Couso-Santamaría & Ricardo Schiappa

  2. Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Ricardo Couso-Santamaría & José D. Edelstein

  3. Centro de Estudios Científicos, CECs, Casilla, 1469, Valdivia, Chile

    José D. Edelstein

  4. CAMGSD, Departamento de Matemática, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049–001, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ricardo Schiappa

  5. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1090-GL, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Couso-Santamaría, R., Edelstein, J.D., Schiappa, R. et al. Resurgent Transseries and the Holomorphic Anomaly: Nonperturbative Closed Strings in Local \({\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2}\) . Commun. Math. Phys. 338, 285–346 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-015-2358-0

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