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Localization principle in supersymmetry
In $\S$ 9.3 of the book "Mirror symmetry" (Vafa, Zaslow eds.) the authors formulate the following general localization principle for computation of integrals with respect to both even and odd ...
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How to construct (another) Landau-Ginzburg model for a compete intersection Calabi-Yau?
For Calabi-Yau variety $X$ which is a complete intersection
$$
f_1=f_2=\ldots=f_r=0
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in ${\mathbb P }^n$ (hence $\mathrm{dim}\,X=n-r$) it is possible to construct a Landau-Ginsburg model in the ...
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Examples of Symplectic Questions Solved by ``Mirror Symmetry Translation'' to Complex Questions
According to the proponents of homological mirror symmetry, when a complex and symplectic manifold are mirror symmetric, we can take difficult questions about the symplectic space and transfer them ...
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On understanding Orlov's LG B model
I try to read Orlov's papers on Landau-Ginzburg model, but I am quite puzzled，there are several questions：
1 the method of truncation is used frequently，(that is: using a bounded above complex $Q$ ...
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Am I missing something about this notion of Mirror Symmetry for abelian varieties?
This is a continuation of my recent question: Mirror symmetry for polarized abelian surfaces and Shioda-Inose K3s.
In the comments of the question, I was directed to the paper ...
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Mirror symmetry for polarized abelian surfaces and Shioda-Inose K3s
It is well known (cf. Dolgachev) that there is a beautiful notion of mirror symmetry for lattice-polarized K3 surfaces. That is, if we are given a rank $r$ lattice $M$ of signature $(1, r - 1)$ and a ...
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How mirror of quintic was originally found?
In the 90-91 pager
"A PAIR OF CALABI-YAU MANIFOLDS AS AN EXACTLY SOLUBLE SUPERCONFORMAL THEORY",
Candelas, De La Ossal, Green, and Parkes, brought up a family of Calabi-Yau 3-folds, canonically ...
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Conifold singularities on the mirror quintic
It is well-known that conifold transitions go in the reversed direction under mirror symmetry. My question is, what is the mirror picture of a degeneration of the generic quintic CY3 to the one ...
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Towards an enhanced version of homological mirror symmetry for affine varieties
Let $X$ and $X^\vee$ be a mirror pair, homological mirror symmetry relates the symplectic geometry of $X$ to the complex geometry of $X^\vee$ via the equivalence of triangulated categories
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Mirror Symmetry for Quaternionic-Kähler Manifolds
I take the following quote from Huybrecht's notes on hyperkähler manifolds and mirror symmetry:
Mirror symmetry in a first approximation predicts for any Calabi-Yau manifold (M,g) the existence of ...
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Wrapped Fukaya categories of Stein manifolds
By the work of Abouzaid, we know that the wrapped Fukaya category of $T^\ast Q$ with $Q$ a closed smooth manifold is generated by a cotangent fiber. Basically, this is an application of Abouzaid's ...
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When will the mirror of a K3 surface be an elliptic K3?
Let $f:Y\rightarrow\mathbb{P}^1$ be an elliptic $K3$ surface, then the holomorphic 2-form $\Omega_Y$ vanishes when restricted to an elliptic fiber $f^{-1}(b)$ with $b\in\mathbb{P}^1$. After a ...
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Lagrangian fibration on Schoen's Calabi-Yau 3-fold
Schoen's Calabi-Yau 3-fold is the fiber product $X=Y_1\times_{\mathbb{P}^1}Y_2$ of two rational elliptic surfaces $Y_1\rightarrow\mathbb{P}^1$ and $Y_2\rightarrow\mathbb{P}^1$ with $\chi(X)=0$ and ...
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SYZ mirror symmetry for K3 surfaces
My question is essentially related to this post, but let me formulate it again. Let $f:S \rightarrow \mathbb{P}^1$ be an elliptic fibration, then this can be a SLAG fibration with respect to another ...
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How is the propagator computed on an elliptic curve?
I've been struggling for a while now understanding why the propagator for the action
$$
S(\varphi) = \int_E \partial \varphi \bar\partial\varphi + \frac{\lambda}{6}(\partial\varphi)^3
$$
on an ...
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What is the meaning of $(h^{11},h^{21})\to (h^{11}-240,h^{21}+240)$ in Calabi-Yau threefolds?
By browsing through the Hodge data of known Calabi-Yau threefolds, I stumbled upon an observation that frequently enough a pair of Hodge numbers $(h^{11},h^{21})$ comes together with the pair $ ...
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Why non-compact Calabi-Yau surfaces are not self-mirror?
By the work of Gross and Bernard-Matessi, in dimension 3 $T$-duality should be understood as an exchange of positive and negative local model of Lagrangian torus fibrations, at least in its ...
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Question about the Aganagic-Vafa A-brane
According to Aganagic-Vafa (hep-th/0012041) and Fang-Liu (arXiv:1103.0693), for a semi-projective toric Calabi-Yau 3-manifold $X$, the Aganagic-Vafa A-brane $L_{AV}\subset X$ is defined by the ...
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Special Lagrangians and fat
I am unable to find the MO comments about the first use of the phrase "fat slags" in an article. On page 26 of this we find "these correspond to thickenings of the
corresponding special Lagrangian ...
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Looking for a reference (on GW invariants of quintic)
1) Apparently, physicist can calculate the GW invariants of quintic CY 3-fold up to genus 51.
I am looking for a reference that has a table of these number for some low degrees (say up to degree 5) ...
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A question on chiral rings and geometry of the vacuum bundle
I am reading "Mirror Symmetry" by Hori et al, and have a question on Chap.17 (Chiral rings and geometry of the vacuum bundle). On p.425 the authors say
Consider the path-integral on the ...
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What is the role of B-field $B \in H^2(X,\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z})$ in mathematics?
In mirror symmetry conjecture, we add what is called "B-field" $B \in H^2(X,\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z})$ in the Kähler moduli space so that the Kähler moduli space has enough freedom comparable to the ...
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fake Calabi-Yau threefold
(1) What is a "fake Calabi-Yau threefold"? Can I describe as a complex or symplectic manifold with trivial canonical bundle, but no compatible Kahler structure? Some mathematicians actually seem to ...
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A question on the topological change of dualizing a SLAG fibration.
Let $S$ be a K3 surface and $\pi:S\rightarrow B$ be a SLAG $T^2$-fibration. I am struggling with a statement that
Fiberwise dualization does not change the topology of $S$.
Here by fiberwise ...
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SLAGs on elliptic curves are only lines?
Let $E=\mathbb{C}/(\mathbb{Z}+\tau\mathbb{Z})$ be an alliptic curve. Define a holomorphic 1-form $dz=dx+idy$ and a Kahler form $\omega=dx\wedge dy$. How can one prove that special Lagrangians on $E$ ...
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A question on the SYZ mirror symmetry
A toy SYZ mirror symmetry is described as follows. Let $X$ be a $n$-dimensional compact manifold. The contangent bundle $T^*X$ has a natural symplectic structure locally given by the $2$-form ...
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Maximally unipotent monodromy point of a K3 surface
I have a question on maximally unipotent monodromy point (or large complex structure limit) of the family of polarized K3 surfaces $(X,L)$. It is known that the moduli space of such pair is given by ...
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Why is the mirror of rigid Calabi-Yau threefold singularity theory?
Mirror symmetry relates two Calabi-Yau threefolds with mirrored Hodge diamonds. Since Calabi-Yau threefold is Kahler, this naive correspondence does not hold for rigid Calabi-Yau threefolds. Here ...
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How to understand Givental's I- and J-functions?
I am learning about mirror symmetry and having trouble understanding Givental's I- and J-functions. For example the J-function for the quintic threefold $X$ is defined by the formula
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Zero and Negative Gromov-Witten invariants in genus 0
I'm working on a project and I've used the Picard-Fuchs equation at a maximally unipotent monodromy point for a certain 1-dimensional family of Calabi-Yau 3-folds to calculate the A-model Yukawa ...
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Mirror symmetry for hyperkahler manifold
Hi there,
I have some questions about the mirror symmetry of hyperkahler manifold and K3 surface.
The well-known result said: the mirror symmetry for K3 surface is just given by its hyperkahler ...
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Are Donaldson-Thomas invariants “A-model” or “B-model” ?
Donaldson-Thomas invariants are the (virtual) Euler characteristics of moduli spaces of elements of the derived category of coherent sheaves (with some fixed Chern class, satisfying some stability ...
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What is known about the Bridgeland stability manifold?
In a fabulous paper (http://annals.math.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/annals-v166-n2-p01.pdf) Bridgeland showed that locally finite stability conditions on a triangulated category form a complex ...
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what is the stringy Kähler moduli space?
I saw the stringy moduli space mentioned in a few papers but with little no explanation. I vaguely understand it is supposed to be the moduli space of complex structures on the mirror manifold.
Could ...
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Lie-infinity structure in Lagrangian Floer theory ?
Is there (besides the A-infinity structure) also a L-infinity structure in Lagrangian Floer theory (forming together a G-infinity structure) - like in Hochschild cohomology ?
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Noncommutative Fukaya category?
After reading through part of Victor Ginzburg's notes on Calabi-Yau algebras, I have a question about a principle in mirror symmetry. Let $(X,X')$ be a mirror pair of Calabi-Yau varieties then mirror ...
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How far can one get with the Gross-Siebert program?
The Gross-Siebert program is said to be an algebraic analog of the SYZ conjecture and they used toric degeneration to construct a mirror dual of Calabi-Yau varieties. It seems like the singular ...
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Mirror to the dualizing sheaf
I wonder - is there a general characterization of the object in the Fukaya category that is mirror to the dualizing sheaf on the other side?
This question has two cases:
1. CY
2. Non-CY
In 1. what ...
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Places to learn about Landau-Ginzburg models
Here is what I know about Landau-Ginzburg models:
It is an important player in the story of mirror symmetry.
It involves "potentials" which are functions of complex varibles, which have isolated ...
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Construction of mirror quintic family over $\mathbb{A}^{1} \setminus \{0,1\}$
This question is about how to construct a Fermat pencil of quintics and the mirror family over $\mathbb{A}\setminus {0,1}$ as opposed to over $\mathbb{A}^{1}\setminus {0,\mu_{5}}$, where $\mu_{5}$ is ...
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Does the derived category of coherent sheaves determine the hodge theory?
Given two smooth algebraic varieties (proper or not), if the two derived categories of the bounded complexes of coherent sheaves over them are equivalent (if necessary we assume there is a fully ...
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$A_{infty}$-categories and mirror symmetry.
I have been looking for an electronic version of Kontsevchi's talk in the Arbeitstagung at 1993. In Kontsevich's publications webpage, I found this reference preprint MPI/93-57, but there is no link ...
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Is $Sym^g$ of a Riemann Surface of genus $g$ Calabi-Yau?
The $g$-fold symmetric product of a Riemann surface of genus $g$ naturally has both a symplectic structure as well as a complex structure. Is it in fact Calabi-Yau? If so, is anything known about a ...
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genus one Gromov-Witten invariants of Calabi-Yau 3-folds
In
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/9302/9302103v1.pdf
physicists calculate (predict) genus one GW invariants of quintic (Table 1) and some other cases (Table 2).
Can any body explain to me ...
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Known Mirror Calabi-Yau pairs
There is a well known class of Calabi-Yau (3 dimensional) pairs constructed by Batyrev. These are resolutions of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in reflexive polytops of dimension 4.
Question: Does any body ...
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Examples in mirror symmetry that can be understood.
It seems to me, that a typical science often has simple and important examples whose formulation can be understood (or at least there are some outcomes that can be understood). So if we consider ...
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Hochschild homology of Fukaya category in mirror symmetry
Hi
Can one explain to me what is the Hochschild homology of Fukaya category?
I mean the definition.
You can use the notations of FOOO (Fukaya-Oh-Ono-Ohta) if it helps you to explain easier.
I know ...
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Looking for a particular family of C.Y quintics
It is possible to construct (in many ways) a family of Calabi-Yau quintics $\mathcal{X}\rightarrow \Delta$, over disk, such that the fiber over $0$ has a singularities locally given by the equation ...
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mirror symmetry with algebraic geometry?
Why is it that mirror symmetry has many relations with algebraic geometry, rather than with complex geometry or differential geometry? (In other words, how is it that solutions to polynomials become ...
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birational equivalence and mirror CYs
If a CY X is a mirror to Y then any CY Z which is birational to X is also a Mirror of Y. This is the motivation for the Kawamata's "moveable Kahler cone" which includes the Kahler cones of all the CYs ...
