Tag - Mirror symmetry

Yan-Lung Leon Li: Equivariant Lagrangian Correspondence and a Conjecture of Teleman

It has been a continuing interest, often with profound importance, in understanding the geometric and topological relationship between a Hamiltonian G-manifold Y and a symplectic quotient X. In this talk, we shall provide precise relations between their (equivariant) Lagrangian Floer theory. In particular, we will address a conjecture of Teleman, motivated by 3d mirror symmetry, on the 2d mirror construction of X from that of Y, which generalises Givental-Hori-Vafa mirror construction for toric varieties. The key technical ingredient is the Kim-Lau-Zheng’s equivariant extension of Fukaya’s Lagrangian correspondence tri-modules over equivariant Floer complexes.

Kai Hugtenburg: Open Gromov-Witten Invariants from the Fukaya Category

Enumerative mirror symmetry is a correspondence between closed Gromov-Witten invariants of a space X, and period integrals of a family Y. One of the predictions of Homological Mirror Symmetry is that the closed Gromov-Witten invariants can be obtained from the Fukaya category. For Calabi-Yau varieties this has been demonstrated by Ganatra-Perutz-Sheridan. Recently, enumerative mirror symmetry has been extended, by including open Gromov-Witten invariants and extended period integrals. It is natural to expect that open Gromov-Witten invariants can be obtained from the Fukaya category. In this talk I will outline a construction which will demonstrate this for certain open Gromov-Witten invariants.

Jack Smith: From Floer to Hochschild via matrix factorisations

The Hochschild cohomology of the Floer algebra of a Lagrangian L, and the associated closed-open string map, play an important role in the generation criterion for the Fukaya category and in deformation theory approaches to mirror symmetry. I will explain how, in the monotone setting, one can build a map from the Floer cohomology of L with certain local coefficients to (a version of) Hochschild cohomology. This map makes things much more geometric, by transferring the algebraic complexity to the world of matrix factorisations, and is an isomorphism when L is a torus.

Marco Castronovo: Polyhedral Liouville domains

I will explain the construction of a new class of Liouville domains that live in a complex torus of arbitrary dimension, whose boundary dynamics encodes information about the singularities of a toric compactification. The primary motivation for this work is to find a symplectic interpretation of some curious Laurent polynomials that appear in mirror symmetry for Fano manifolds; it also potentially opens a path to bound symplectic capacities of polarized projective varieties from below.

Benjamin Gammage: Mirror symmetry from the SYZ base

proof of homological mirror symmetry between the complex and symplectic manifold associated to local pieces of the combinatorial data.

This is part of a programme with Vivek Shende to prove homological mirror symmetry over a global SYZ base.

Andrew Hanlon: Tropical Lagrangian sections and Looijenga pairs

We will discuss the first steps in an approach to proving homological mirror symmetry for Looijenga pairs through tropical Lagrangian sections. Namely, we will see how to construct these Lagrangian sections from tropical data corresponding to line bundles on the mirror and include them in a version on the Fukaya-Seidel category. Moreover, the Lagrangian Floer coholomogy of certain sections corresponds with integral points of polytopes that encode theta functions on the mirror.

Hülya Argüz: Enumerative geometry and mirror symmetry for log Calabi-Yau pairs

Given a log Calabi-Yau pair (X,D), consisting of a smooth projective variety X together with a normal crossings anti-canonical divisor D, we first provide a combinatorial algorithm for solving the enumerative problem of computing rational stable maps to (X,D) touching D at a single point. We then explain how to use the solution to write explicit equations for mirrors to such pairs at
arbitrary dimensions.

Wendelin Lutz: Towards a geometric proof of the classification of T-polygons

One formulation of mirror symmetry predicts (omitting a few adjectives) a 1-1 correspondence between equivalence classes of certain lattice polygons and deformation families of certain del Pezzo surfaces.

Lattice polygons corresponding to smooth Del Pezzo surfaces are called T-polygons, and these have been classified by Kasprzyk-Nill-Prince using combinatorial methods. I will sketch a new geometric proof of their classification result.

Qaasim Shafi: Quasimaps and accordions

Quasimaps provide an alternate curve counting system to Gromov-Witten theory, which are related by wall-crossing formulae. Relative (or logarithmic) Gromov-Witten theory has proved useful for constructions in mirror symmetry, as well as for determining ordinary Gromov-Witten invariants via the degeneration formula. Different versions of this theory rely on various technologies, including expansions (or accordions) as well as logarithmic structures. I will discuss how to use a hybrid of these approaches to produce a proper moduli space parametrizing quasimaps relative a smooth divisor in any genus.