Mirror symmetry

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

The Powers of Monodromy

Abstract: Flux couplings to string theory axions yield super-Planckian field ranges along which the axion potential energy grows. At the same time, other aspects of the physics remain essentially unchanged along these large displacements, respecting a discrete shift symmetry with a sub-Planckian period. After a general overview of this monodromy effect and its application to large-field inflation, we present new classes of specific models of monodromy inflation, with monomial potentials $\mu^{4-p}\phi^p$. A key simplification in these models is that the inflaton potential energy plays a leading role in moduli stabilization during inflation. The resulting inflaton-dependent shifts in the moduli fields lead to an effective flattening of the inflaton potential, i.e. a reduction of the exponent from a fiducial value $p_0$ to $p

Refined stable pair invariants for E-, M- and [ p , q ]-strings

Abstract: We use mirror symmetry, the refined holomorphic anomaly equation and modularity properties of elliptic singularities to calculate the refined BPS invariants of stable pairs on non-compact Calabi-Yau manifolds, based on del Pezzo surfaces and elliptic surfaces, in particular the half K3. The BPS numbers contribute naturally to the fivedimensional N =1 supersymmetric index of M-theory, but they can be also interpreted in terms of the superconformal index in six dimensions and upon dimensional reduction the generating functions count N = 2 Seiberg-Witten gauge theory instantons in four dimensions. Using the M/F-theory uplift the additional information encoded in the spin content can be used in an essential way to obtain information about BPS states in physical systems associated to small instantons, tensionless strings, gauge symmetry enhancement in F-theory by [p, q]-strings as well as M-strings.

Orbifold quantum Riemann–Roch, Lefschetz and Serre

Abstract: Given a vector bundle F on a smooth Deligne–Mumford stack X and an invertible multiplicative characteristic class c, we define orbifold Gromov–Witten invariants of X twisted by F and c. We prove a “quantum Riemann–Roch theorem” which expresses the generating function of the twisted invariants in terms of the generating function of the untwisted invariants. A quantum Lefschetz hyperplane theorem is derived from this by specializing to genus zero. As an application, we determine the relationship between genus–0 orbifold Gromov–Witten invariants of X and that of a complete intersection, under additional assumptions. This provides a way to verify mirror symmetry predictions for some complete intersection orbifolds.

Floer cohomology and disc instantons of Lagrangian torus fibers in Fano toric manifolds

Abstract: In this paper, we first provide an explicit description of {\it all} holomorphic discs (``disc instantons'') attached to Lagrangian torus fibers of arbitrary compact toric manifolds, and prove their Fredholm regularity. Using this, we compute Fukaya-Oh-Ohta-Ono's (FOOO's) obstruction (co)chains and the Floer cohomology of Lagrangian torus fibers of Fano toric manifolds. In particular specializing to the formal parameter $T^{2\pi} = e^{-1}$, our computation verifies the folklore that FOOO's obstruction (co)chains correspond to the Landau-Ginzburg superpotentials under the mirror symmetry correspondence, and also proves the prediction made by K. Hori about the Floer cohomology of Lagrangian torus fibers of Fano toric manifolds. The latter states that the Floer cohomology (for the parameter value $T^{2\pi} = e^{-1}$) of all the fibers vanish except at a finite number, the Euler characteristic of the toric manifold, of base points in the momentum polytope that are critical points of the superpotential of the Landau-Ginzburg mirror to the toric manifold. In the latter cases, we also prove that the Floer cohomology of the corresponding fiber is isomorphic to its singular cohomology. We also introduce a restricted version of the Floer cohomology of Lagrangian submanifolds, which is a priori more flexible to define in general, and which we call the {\it adapted Floer cohomology}. We then prove that the adapted Floer cohomology of any non-singular torus fiber of Fano toric manifolds is well-defined, invariant under the Hamiltonian isotopy and isomorphic to the Bott-Morse Floer cohomology of the fiber.