On leading Gopakumar--Vafa invariants of local $\mathbb{P}^2$ and leading Betti numbers of moduli spaces of one-dimensional sheaves on $\mathbb{P}^2$

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In this paper we use the topological vertex formalism to derive a structural formula for the leading terms of the generating series of Gromov--Witten invariants of local $\mathbb P^2$. Then we give two applications of this formula. First we use this result to derive an explicit formula for the leading terms of the transformed Gopakumar--Vafa invariants of local $\mathbb P^2$. This is an extension of a formula of Guo--Zhou \cite{gz} from degree $2d-5$ to $3d-1$, and shares some similar features with the famous Göttsche--Yau--Zaslow formula. And as the second application, we prove Guo--Wu--Moreira's Conjecture \cite{gw} about the leading Betti numbers of the moduli space of one-dimensional Gieseker semistable sheaves on $\mathbb P^2$.