Mirror symmetry

About: Mirror symmetry is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2422 publications have been published within this topic receiving 90786 citations.

Mirror symmetry for stable quotients invariants

Abstract: The moduli space of stable quotients introduced by Marian-Oprea-Pandharipande provides a natural compactification of the space of morphisms from nonsingular curves to a nonsingular projective variety and carries a natural virtual class. We show that the analogue of Givental's J-function for the resulting twisted projective invariants is described by the same mirror hypergeometric series as the corresponding Gromov-Witten invariants (which arise from the moduli space of stable maps), but without the mirror transform (in the Calabi-Yau case). This implies that the stable quotients and Gromov-Witten twisted invariants agree if there is enough "positivity", but not in all cases. As a corollary of the proof, we show that certain twisted Hurwitz numbers arising in the stable quotients theory are also described by a fundamental object associated with this hypergeometric series. We thus completely answer some of the questions posed by Marian-Oprea-Pandharipande concerning their invariants. Our results suggest a deep connection between the stable quotients invariants of complete intersections and the geometry of the mirror families. As in Gromov-Witten theory, computing Givental's J-function (essentially a generating function for genus 0 invariants with 1 marked point) is key to computing stable quotients invariants of higher genus and with more marked points; we exploit this in forthcoming papers.

Detecting 3-D Mirror Symmetry in a 2-D Camera Image for 3-D Shape Recovery

Abstract: In this paper, we take up the long-standing problem of how to recover 3-D shapes represented by a 2-D image, such as the image on the retina of the eye, or in a video camera. Our approach is biologically grounded in a theory of how the human visual system solves this problem, focusing on shapes that are mirror symmetrical in 3-D. A 3-D mirror-symmetrical shape can be recovered from a single 2-D orthographic or perspective image by applying several a priori constraints: 3-D mirror symmetry, 3-D compactness, and planarity of contours. From the computational point of view, the application of a 3-D symmetry constraint is challenging because it requires establishing 3-D symmetry correspondence among features of a 2-D image, which itself is asymmetrical for almost all viewing directions relative to the 3-D symmetrical shape. We describe new invariants of a 3-D to 2-D projection for the case of a pair of mirror-symmetrical planar contours, and we formally state and prove the necessary and sufficient conditions for detection of this type of symmetry in a single orthographic and perspective image.

T[U(N)] duality webs: mirror symmetry, spectral duality and gauge/CFT correspondences

Abstract: We study various duality webs involving the 3d FT[SU(N)] theory, a close relative of the T[SU(N)] quiver tail. We first map the partition functions of FT[SU(N)] and its 3d spectral dual to a pair of spectral dual q-Toda conformal blocks. Then we show how to obtain the FT[SU(N)] partition function by Higgsing a 5d linear quiver gauge theory, or equivalently from the refined topological string partition function on a certain toric Calabi-Yau three-fold. 3d spectral duality in this context descends from 5d spectral duality. Finally we discuss the 2d reduction of the 3d spectral dual pair and study the corresponding limits on the q-Toda side. In particular we obtain a new direct map between the partition function of the 2d FT[SU(N)] GLSM and an (N+2)-point Toda conformal block.

Semiclassical transport in nearly symmetric quantum dots. I. Symmetry breaking in the dot.

Abstract: We apply the semiclassical theory of transport to quantum dots with exact and approximate spatial symmetries; left-right mirror symmetry, up-down mirror symmetry, inversion symmetry, or fourfold symmetry. In this work—the first of a pair of articles—we consider (a) perfectly symmetric dots and (b) nearly symmetric dots in which the symmetry is broken by the dot's internal dynamics. The second article addresses symmetry-breaking by displacement of the leads. Using semiclassics, we identify the origin of the symmetry-induced interference effects that contribute to weak localization corrections and universal conductance fluctuations. For perfect spatial symmetry, we recover results previously found using the random-matrix theory conjecture. We then go on to show how the results are affected by asymmetries in the dot, magnetic fields, and decoherence. In particular, the symmetry-asymmetry crossover is found to be described by a universal dependence on an asymmetry parameter gamma_asym. However, the form of this parameter is very different depending on how the dot is deformed away from spatial symmetry. Symmetry-induced interference effects are completely destroyed when the dot's boundary is globally deformed by less than an electron wavelength. In contrast, these effects are only reduced by a finite amount when a part of the dot's boundary smaller than a lead-width is deformed an arbitrarily large distance.

On the work of Givental relative to mirror symmetry

Abstract: These are the informal notes of two seminars held at the Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", and at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in Spring and Autumn 1997. We discuss in detail the content of the parts of Givental's paper (G1) dealing with mirror symmetry for projective complete intersections.