Descrizione del progetto
Esplorare le interazioni della simmetria speculare omologica con la teoria di Hodge e la topologia simplettica
La simmetria speculare omologica è una congettura matematica che cerca di spiegare il fenomeno chiamato simmetria speculare, osservato per la prima volta dai fisici impegnati nello studio della teoria delle stringhe. Inizialmente, era stata immaginata come un isomorfismo tra la teoria di Hodge su una varietà algebrica e la teoria quantistica di Hodge di una varietà simplettica a specchio. La congettura prevede l’equivalenza tra la categoria derivata della varietà e la categoria di Fukaya del suo speculare, con importanti implicazioni per diverse aree della matematica. Il progetto HMS, finanziato dall’UE, condurrà ricerche per mettere in luce nuovi aspetti del rapporto tra simmetria speculare omologica e teoria di Hodge e identificherà applicazioni precedentemente sconosciute della topologia simplettica.
Obiettivo
Mirror symmetry is a deep relationship between algebraic and symplectic geometry, with origins in string theory. It was originally envisioned as an isomorphism between the Hodge theory of an algebraic variety and the `quantum Hodge theory' of a `mirror' symplectic manifold, but it was subsequently realized by Kontsevich that the relationship went far deeper. His Homological Mirror Symmetry (HMS) conjecture predicts an equivalence between the derived category of the variety and the Fukaya category of its mirror, and has far-reaching implications for diverse areas of mathematics. In previous work I have proved the conjecture in fundamental cases, established its precise relationship with the Hodge-theoretic version of mirror symmetry, and used these results to solve questions in enumerative geometry and symplectic topology.
The proposed research centres on HMS, new aspects of its relationship with Hodge theory, and new applications to symplectic topology. It is split into four projects:
1. Prove HMS for Gross-Siebert mirrors (this covers the vast majority of mirror pairs proposed in the literature). As a preliminary step in this direction we will prove HMS for Batyrev mirrors.
2. Prove that HMS implies mirror symmetry for open Gromov-Witten invariants. The key step will be the construction of a mirror to the Abel-Jacobi map.
3. Enrich the Hodge-theoretic structures emerging from HMS with rational structures. The key step will be to show that the Gamma rational structure on quantum Hodge theory emerges from the topological K-theory of the Fukaya category.
4. The Lagrangian cobordism group is an important invariant of a symplectic manifold, which can be used to study some of the most fundamental questions in symplectic topology such as the classification of Lagrangian submanifolds. We will elucidate its structure by using its relationship, via HMS, with the Chow group of the mirror variety.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantIstituzione ospitante
EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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