Questions tagged [mirror-symmetry]
Use for questions about mirror symmetry in theoretical/mathematical physics.
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complexified kahler form
In mirror symmetry one usually considers a complexified kahler form $B+iw$ instead of kahler form $w$ itself.(Or their moduli)
Here is the question:
What does $B$ correspond to? what kind of ...
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balanced curves in Calabi-Yau 3-folds
A balanced smooth rational curve in a calabi-Yau X is a smooth rational curve whose normal bundle is $O(-1)\oplus O(-1)$.
We usually like these curves because of their rigidity.
But, Is there any ...
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Shrinking Fano surfaces to a point in Calabi-Yau 3-folds
Let X be a Calabi-Yau 3-fold, and $D\subset X$, smooth,Fano divisor.
Since $K_X=0$ we have $N_D^X=K_D$. I have seen the following fact in many papers:
By deforming X within Kahler moduli, we can ...
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About topological B model
I was heard (by an expert) that, in mirror symmetry, we have constructed a Quantum Master Equation associated to topological B model, and a solution to it. But I can't find any material about this. Is ...
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"Fourier-Mukai" functors for Fukaya categories?
I just skimmed a bit of this fresh-off-the-press paper on homological mirror symmetry for general type varieties.
One thing that intrigued me was statement (ii) of Conjecture 3.3. It suggests that, ...
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Mirror of local Calabi-Yau
What is the mirror manifold of the total space of the bundle $O(-1)\oplus O(-1)$ over $P^1$? I have tried to find the answer on the web but failed. Is there a good reference for this? Thanks.
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Which part of physical B model is not rigorous?
Which part of physical B model is not rigorous? the physical theory of B model,if it is not mathematical rigorous just because the Feynman integral,but it looks like for me the space is finite ...
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Mirror symmetry mod p?! ... Physics mod p?!
In his answer to this question, Scott Carnahan mentions "mirror symmetry mod p". What is that?
(Some kind of) Gromov-Witten invariants can be defined for varieties over fields other than $\mathbb{C}$...
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Higher genus closed string B-model
The closed string A-model is mathematically described by Gromov-Witten invariants of a compact symplectic manifold $X$. The genus 0 GW invariants give the structure of quantum cohomology of $X$, which ...
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Understanding formula in Frenkel-Witten
I'm not the person to understand everything in Geometric Endoscopy and Mirror Symmetry, but some parts of it are reasonably clear to me.
In particular, one of the main objects, mathematically ...
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Picard-Fuchs equations
If I have the periods $$\pi_1(\lambda)=\int_0^1\frac{dx}{\sqrt{x(x-1)(x-\lambda)}}$$ and $\pi_2(\lambda)$ similarly defined of the cubic curve $$y^2z=z(x-z)(x-\lambda z)$$ Such functions will be ...
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Is the Fukaya category "defined"?
Sometimes people say that the Fukaya category is "not yet defined" in general.
What is meant by such a statement? (If it simplifies things, let's just stick with Fukaya categories of compact ...
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Singularity theory references
I am looking for some good references on singularity theory. I'm interested in singularity theory in the context of mirror symmetry, so this means I'm interested in things like Picard-Lefschetz theory,...
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Mirror symmetry for noncompact Calabi-Yau manifolds
In analogy with the Hodge diagram for ordinary de Rham cohomology, we should have some kind of diagram for Alexander-Spanier cohomology. Doing all the relevant duality stuff and assuming that now our ...
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