Motivic Donaldson–Thomas invariants for the one-loop quiver with potential

Abstract

We compute the motivic Donaldson–Thomas invariants of the one-loop quiver, with an arbitrary potential. This is the first computation of motivic Donaldson–Thomas invariants to use in an essential way the full machinery of $\widehat{\mu }$–equivariant motives, for which we prove a dimensional reduction result similar to that of Behrend, Bryan and Szendrői in their study of degree-zero motivic Donaldson–Thomas invariants. Our result differs from theirs in that it involves nontrivial monodromy.