All Genus Gopakumar-Vafa Reconstruction from Central Difference Forcing
Abstract
Generating functions in curve counting theory mix two different kinds of information: multiple covers mix curve degrees, while the topological string coupling mixes BPS genera. We show that a single central difference operator separates these two effects in a precise and invertible way for the all genus Gopakumar-Vafa expansion along an effective ray of a Calabi-Yau threefold. Writing y=(2sinλ/2)2, we combine the Bryan-Pandharipande cover polynomials with the corresponding Fejér factors and obtain a Chebyshev-Fejér ghost transform for the normalized difference forcing. The transform admits an explicit operator-valued Möbius inverse. Its y-adic filtration is exactly the BPS genus filtration: the forcing modulo yG+1 is equivalent to the complete collection of BPS invariants of genera at most G. Thus the genus zero reconstruction from the classical specialization is the first associated graded piece of an all genus hierarchy. We also characterize the integral image of the transform. Integral BPS forcing is equivalent to a two stage condition: Witt-Dwork type Frobenius congruences for the underlying ghost coordinates, together with an additional Fejér divisibility condition imposed by the central difference operator. In prime power degree this gives a strengthened Dwork congruence containing the full Fejér factor. For local curves, the formalism has concrete geometric realizations. A super-rigid elliptic curve gives an exact Dedekind η expression for the forcing. In the balanced higher genus local curve theory, the upper degree two BPS invariants are realized as top Chern numbers on natural stacks of square roots over symmetric products. These results connect central difference equations with BPS reconstruction, arithmetic ghost structures, and the geometry of local curves.
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BibTeX
@misc{li2026genus,
title = {{All Genus Gopakumar-Vafa Reconstruction from Central Difference Forcing}},
author = {Xiaobin Li},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.00217},
eprint = {2610.00217},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00217},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - All Genus Gopakumar-Vafa Reconstruction from Central Difference Forcing
AU - Xiaobin Li
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.00217
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00217
AB - Generating functions in curve counting theory mix two different kinds of information: multiple covers mix curve degrees, while the topological string coupling mixes BPS genera. We show that a single central difference operator separates these two effects in a precise and invertible way for the all genus Gopakumar-Vafa expansion along an effective ray of a Calabi-Yau threefold. Writing y=(2sinλ/2)^2, we combine the Bryan-Pandharipande cover polynomials with the corresponding Fejér factors and obtain a Chebyshev-Fejér ghost transform for the normalized difference forcing. The transform admits an explicit operator-valued Möbius inverse. Its y-adic filtration is exactly the BPS genus filtration: the forcing modulo y^G+1 is equivalent to the complete collection of BPS invariants of genera at most G. Thus the genus zero reconstruction from the classical specialization is the first associated graded piece of an all genus hierarchy. We also characterize the integral image of the transform. Integral BPS forcing is equivalent to a two stage condition: Witt-Dwork type Frobenius congruences for the underlying ghost coordinates, together with an additional Fejér divisibility condition imposed by the central difference operator. In prime power degree this gives a strengthened Dwork congruence containing the full Fejér factor. For local curves, the formalism has concrete geometric realizations. A super-rigid elliptic curve gives an exact Dedekind η expression for the forcing. In the balanced higher genus local curve theory, the upper degree two BPS invariants are realized as top Chern numbers on natural stacks of square roots over symmetric products. These results connect central difference equations with BPS reconstruction, arithmetic ghost structures, and the geometry of local curves.
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