Quasimaps to moduli spaces of sheaves on a surface

Abstract

Abstract In this article, we study quasimaps to moduli spaces of sheaves on a $K3$ surface S. We construct a surjective cosection of the obstruction theory of moduli spaces of $\epsilon $ -stable quasimaps. We then establish reduced wall-crossing formulas which relate the reduced Gromov–Witten theory of moduli spaces of sheaves on S and the reduced Donaldson–Thomas theory of $S\times C$ , where C is a nodal curve. As applications, we prove the Hilbert-schemes part of the Igusa cusp form conjecture; higher-rank/rank-one Donaldson–Thomas correspondence with relative insertions on $S\times C$ , if $g(C)\leq 1$ ; Donaldson–Thomas/Pandharipande–Thomas correspondence with relative insertions on $S\times \mathbb {P}^1$ .