Questions tagged [mirror-symmetry]
Use for questions about mirror symmetry in theoretical/mathematical physics.
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Question on condition for a sheaf to be locally free in Orlov 2004
In "Triangulated Categories of Singularities and D-Branes in Landau-Ginzburg Models", Orlov twice mentions the following criterion for a sheaf $P_1$ to be locally free:
If for all closed points $t:x ...
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Localization principle in integration over supermanifolds
This post is closely related to the post Localization principle in supersymmetry
and can be considered as a continuation of it, although independent.
In § 9.3 of the book "Mirror symmetry" (K. Hori ...
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Reference on rigorous formulation of mirror symmetry conjecture
I am looking for a mathematically rigorous formulation of mirror symmetry conjecture in the flavour of the original paper by Candelas, de la Ossa, Green and Parkes
https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(...
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Birational Calabi-Yau varieties with non-isomorphic cohomological invariants
We know from the work of Kontsevich, for example, that birational Calabi-Yau complex varieties have the same Hodge numbers. I want to understand to what extent the equivalence of cohomological ...
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Mirror symmetry for blowups of the projective plane
Let $S$ be a blowup of the projective plane $\mathbb{CP}^2$ at $n$ points. When $n\le 9$, Auroux, Katzarkov and Orlov showed that them a mirror Landau-Ginzburg model is given by a certain elliptic ...
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K-stability is invariant under D-equivalency
Kawamata conjectured that
Let $X$ and $Y$ be birationally equivalent smooth
projective varieties. Then the following are equivalent. We denote by
$D^b(Coh(X))$ the derived category of bounded ...
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Hodge theoretic mirror symmetry and DG-BV algebras
Consider two Calabi-Yau manifold $X$ and $\check{X}$ which are meant to be mirror partners. Motivated by "classical MS", In DGBV Algebras and Mirror Symmetry, the following enhancement is proposed:
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SYZ conjecture for varieties of general type or Fano
Let $X$ and $Y$ are Calabi-Yau varieties and mirror to each other. Then from HMS the Fukaya Floer category of Lagrangian intersections in $X$, is equivalent to bounded derived category of coherent ...
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Large Complex Structure Limit of Calabi-Yau family and uniqueness of limit
Let $\mathcal X$ be a smooth complex manifold of dimension $n+1$. We say $\mathcal X \to ∆$ is a large complex structure limit if and only if it’s maximal unipotent degeneration .
$T: H^n(\mathcal ...
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Can one relate $K_0$ of an $A_\infty$-category $\mathcal A$ to $K_0(Fun_{A_\infty}(\mathcal A, \mathcal A))$?
For an $A_\infty$-category $\mathcal A$, one defines the group $K_0(\mathcal A)$ by
$$K_0(\mathcal A) := \mathbb Z \operatorname{Ob} \operatorname{Tw} \mathcal A / \left<[A]+[B]-[C]\right>$$
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Is there a hyperkaehler manifold whose mirror is the total space of a tangent/cotangent bundle?
I am looking for an example of a hyperkaehler manifold $Y$ whose mirror is the total space of a tangent bundle $TX$ or a cotangent bundle $T^*X$, where $X$ can be any Riemannian manifold.
Is such a ...
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Is the mirror of a noncompact hyperkaehler manifold also hyperkaehler?
This is essentially a follow-up question from 'Is the mirror of a hyperkaehler manifold always a hyperkaehler manifold?'. Verbitsky's theorem in (https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9512195.pdf) says that ...
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Is the mirror of a hyperkaehler manifold always a hyperkaehler manifold?
Is the mirror of a hyperkaehler manifold always a hyperkaehler manifold?
What I know so far is as follows:
In this paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9512195.pdf) by Verbitsky, it is claimed that ...
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Blow-up/Blow-down correspondence via Hodge Mirror Symmetry?
Let $X$ be a projective variety. Let $S \subset X$ be the nonsingular complete intersection of $k$ nonsingular divisors of $X$ of codimension $2k>2$. Denote $\tilde{X}$ the blow up of $X$ along $S$,...
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Integrality of the mirror map -- non-GKZ examples? Counterexamples?
The mirror map in mirror symmetry is the change-of-variables between the natural coordinatizations on the two mirror sides and is typically a highly-complicated transcendental function (indeed, should ...
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Perfect Complexes on Tangent Bundle
Suppose $X$ is a $k$-variety of dimension $d$, and suppose $TX$ is its tangent bundle. Consider the (triangulated, stable $\infty$-,...) categories of perfect complexes $\text{Perf}(X)$ and $\text{...
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How to construct the mirror partner of a blowup?
Question: Let's assume we have a pair $(X,\check{X})$ that are mirror dual to each other in the sense of Homological mirror symmetry (EDIT: this does not have to be CY n-folds, but can also be a Fano ...
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Any progress on Strominger-Yau and Zaslow conjecture?
In 2002 Hausel - Thaddeus interpreted SYZ conjecture in the context of Hitchin system and Langlands duality. Let briefly explain it
Let $\pi : E \to Σ$ a complex vector bundle of rank $r$ and ...
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Does there exists a Fukaya category with no objects
... and really without even the possibility of having objects, so it's not a matter of just finding the "correct" flavour of Fukaya category to use.
Question: Does there exist interesting symplectic ...
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Open conjectures on the Fukaya category coming from physics
This is a slightly vague question (for which I apologize in advance): can somebody give examples to open conjectures on the behavior of the $Fuk(M,\omega)$ that come from string theory and can be ...
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Automorphism that the Fukaya category is "blind" to
Given a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$, there is a natural map
$$ Symp(M,\omega) \to Auteq(D^\pi Fuk(M,\omega))$$
which sends a symplectic automorphism to the $A_\infty$-functor it induces on the ...
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connectedness of moduli space of Calabi-Yau 3-folds by symplectic surgery theory
"Motto" Moduli space of Calabi-Yau varieties can be connected by using Symplectic surgery theory.
Miles Reid’s Fantasy:“There is only one Calabi-Yau space”
i.e "All CY connected through conifold ...
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Stability notion to smoothing varieties under a flat deformation with a smooth total space
Is there any stability notion that led to an algebraic variety be smoothable in general for Fano varieties or for Calabi-Yau varieties?
Note that Friedman found a nesessary condition that $X$ to be ...
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Examples of Maximal degeneration of Deligne on Calabi-Yau degeneration
Pierre Deligne in his celebrated paper entitling "Local behavior of Hodge structures at infinity" introduced Maximal degenerations of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
Let $\pi:X\to \mathbb C^*$ be a family of ...
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Fiberwise compactification of a LG model
It is believed that a mirror of $\mathbb{CP}^2$ is a fiberwise compactification of the family $$W \colon (\mathbb{C}^\times)^2 \rightarrow \mathbb{C}, \quad (x,y)\mapsto x+y+\frac{1}{xy}.$$ Is it ...
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Gromov-Witten invariant $\langle p, p, \ell\rangle_{0, 1}$ counting degree $1$, genus $0$ curves in $\mathbb{CP}^2$?
Let $p \in H^4(\mathbb{CP}^2)$ and $\ell \in H^2(\mathbb{CP}^2)$ be the cohomology classes Poincaré dual to a point and a line respectively.
Question. What is the Gromov-Witten invariant $\langle p, ...
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What is the mirror of symplectic field theory?
Mirror symmetry is, very roughly, a relation between symplectic geometry on one side and complex/algebraic geometry on the other side. For example, counts of pseudoholomorphic spheres in a closed ...
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Confusion regarding statement of mirror symmetry for elliptic curves
I am a little bit unsure about the mirror symmetry statement for elliptic curves; specifically, how the flipping of the Kähler and complex moduli works. Perhaps I should say at the outset, the reason ...
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Meaning of the support property in the definition of Bridgeland stability condition
Let $(Z,\mathcal{P})$ be a Bridgeland stability condition on a triangulated category $\mathcal{C}$. It is said to satisfy the support property if there exists a norm on $K(\mathcal{C})\otimes_\mathbb{...
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Symplectic Hodge Maps and Mirror Symmetry
The notion of Hodge theory for symplectic manifolds seems to be getting more and more attentions in these days. See the series of papers by Yau:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1250
http://arxiv.org/abs/...
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Mirror Symmetry for Flag Supermanifolds
I recently learned the following two things, and I wish to know how to make them reconciled.
(1) As far as I understand, the flag manifolds serve as a tractable class of examples for the very ...
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holomorphic curves in almost toric fibration and their relation to tropical curves
My goal is to get better understanding how the projection of holomorphic curves converge to tropical disks.
We are given an almost toric fibration $X\rightarrow B$ with special Lagrangian fibers with ...
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When is the tangent bundle of a manifold naturally a complex manifold?
It is well-known that the cotangent bundle of a manifold is naturally a symplectic manifold. Inspired by mirror symmetry, when is the tangent bundle $TM$ of a manifold $M$ naturally a complex manifold?...
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What is the Hochschild cohomology of the Fukaya-Seidel category?
Let $(Y, \omega)$ be a compact symplectic manifold and let $Fuk(X,\omega)$ be its Fukaya category. The Hochschild cohomology of this category should be given by $HH^\bullet(Fuk(Y,\omega))=H^\bullet(Y, ...
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Is there a tropical geometric proof for counting genus g curves in any n dimensional projective space?
Consider the following question: Let $X$ be a compact complex manifold
and $\beta \in H_2(X, \mathbb{Z})$ a fixed homology class. Let
$\mu_1, \mu_2, \ldots, \mu_k$ denote certain generic ...
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Learning Quantum (Co)Homology and Landau Ginzburg Superpotential
I am learning about Quantum Homology which I have to use in my research, and I see that in many papers (For example in FOOO, "Spectral invariants with bulk, Quasimorphisms and Lagrangian Floer theory",...
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Hodge numbers of non-commutative varieties
Let $(X, \mathcal{A})$ be a non-commutative variety, by this I mean $X$ is a (smooth) algebraic variety and $\mathcal{A}$ is a sheaf of algebra on $X$. One such example in my mind is when $X$ admits ...
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Reference or explanation: Cup products, deformations of complex structure and Mirror Symmetry
In section 0.3. of their paper "Frobenius Manifolds and Formality of Lie Algebras of Polyvector Fields," Barannikov and Kontsevich discuss the fact that Kontsevich's formality morphism (from his paper ...
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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
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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 http://arxiv.org/abs/...
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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 Ossa, Green, and Parkes, brought up a family of Calabi-Yau 3-folds, canonically ...
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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
$D^\pi\...
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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 $h^{...
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