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Use for questions about mirror symmetry in theoretical/mathematical physics.

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Examples in mirror symmetry that can be understood.

Here is my biased view of a simple example: the two-torus. Everything I know about homological mirror symmetry stems from this example. Because the example is one-dimensional, a symplectic form is j …
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mirror symmetry with algebraic geometry?

Here are a few scattered observations: Our ability to construct examples (e.g. of CY manifolds) is limited, and the tools of algebraic geometry are perfectly suited to doing so (as has been noted). …
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compute the Kähler moduli of an elliptic curve

The curve you wrote in equations lies in C^2, while the "elliptic curve" of your text is presumably a compact projective variety -- meaning you imagine making your equations homogeneous (or even quasi …
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Mirror of Flop?

I assume the question regards the coherent sheaves on these two CY's. These CY's should be regarded as the "same" complex manifold with two different choices of complexified symplectic forms ("Kahler …
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Do you understand SYZ conjecture

Hi- Just saw this thread. Maybe I should comment. The conjecture can be viewed from the perspective of various categories: geometric, symplectic, topological. Since the argument is physical, it wa …
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Mirror of local Calabi-Yau

I think this is a stubborn case which does not fit into the general picture. For example, if you use the standard toric procedure to try to construct a differential equation for the log periods of th …
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Higher genus closed string B-model

One thing missing from this discussion is the even-more-mysterious holomorphic ambiguity (not "anomaly"). BCOV is not deterministic, and should probably be thought of as part of a general schema for …
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Which part of physical B model is not rigorous?

To define (as Kevin Lin does above) the B-model purely as the derived category of coherent sheaves is fine and rigorous, but it ignores the higher-genus aspects of mirror symmetry -- which was the ori …
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Which part of physical B model is not rigorous?

Kevin Costello's mathematical definition of the B-model (math/0509264) is rigorous. It's an open problem whether this definition agrees with the BCOV construction, as far as I know.
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