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Conifold Gap for the Quintic Threefold

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We prove the all-genus conifold gap conjecture for the Gromov--Witten (GW) theories of the quintic threefold, other smooth Fermat Calabi--Yau threefold hypersurfaces, and local $\mathbb P^2$, as well as for the FJRW theories associated with these hypersurfaces. Our proof uses Mixed Spin P-field (MSP) theory and analogous master-space constructions. The central object is the \emph{cone-vertex theory}. We express this theory as a translation of the point CohFT via a formal Laplace transform and prove a universal conifold gap theorem for the resulting translated theories. The master-space construction then transfers the gap from the cone-vertex theory to the GW and FJRW theories.

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Huai-Liang Chang, Shuai Guo, Lei You, Huaigong Zhang. 2026-09-12. Conifold Gap for the Quintic Threefold. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13921

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