Physics Around Mirror Symmetry

16 talks

October 21, 2013 - October 25, 2013

C13034

Collection Type Conference/School

Description Physics Around Mirror Symmetry

Displaying 1 - 12 of 16

TBA

Johannes Walcher McGill University

October 25, 2013 PIRSA:13100127
The mathematics of G_2 conifolds for M-theory

Spiro Karigiannis University of Waterloo

October 25, 2013 PIRSA:13100126
Heterotic Flux Geometry from (0,2) Gauge Dynamics

Callum Quigley

October 24, 2013 PIRSA:13100125
TBA

David Favero

October 24, 2013 PIRSA:13100124
Resurgent transseries and the holomorphic anomaly
October 24, 2013 PIRSA:13100123
TBA

Vincent Bouchard University of Alberta

October 24, 2013 PIRSA:13100122
A symplectic approach to generalized complex geometry

Marco Gualtieri University of Toronto

October 23, 2013 PIRSA:13100121
On refined stable pair invariants for del Pezzo surfaces and the 1/2 K3

Albrecht Klemm Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

October 23, 2013 PIRSA:13100120
Wall-crossing structures

Yan Soibelman Kansas State University

October 23, 2013 PIRSA:13100119
Blobbed topological recursion

Gaetan Borot

October 22, 2013 PIRSA:13100118
Algebraic structures in massive (2,2) theories

Davide Gaiotto Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

October 22, 2013 PIRSA:13100117
Exact Results In Two-Dimensional (2,2) Supersymmetric Gauge Theories With Boundary

Kentaro Hori Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU)

October 22, 2013 PIRSA:13100116

TBA

Johannes Walcher McGill University

October 25, 2013 PIRSA:13100127
The mathematics of G_2 conifolds for M-theory

Spiro Karigiannis University of Waterloo

October 25, 2013 PIRSA:13100126

G_2 manifolds play the analogous role in M-theory that Calabi-Yau manifolds play in string theory. There has been work in the physics community on conjectural "mirror symmetry" in this context, and it has also been observed that singularities are necessary for a satisfactory theory. After a very brief review of these physical developments (by a mathematician who doesn't necessarily understand the physics), I will give a mathematical introduction to G_2 conifolds. I will then proceed to give a detailed survey of recent mathematical developments on G_2 conifolds, including desingularization, deformation theory, and possible constructions of G_2 conifolds. This includes separate joint works of myself with Jason Lotay and with Dominic Joyce.
Heterotic Flux Geometry from (0,2) Gauge Dynamics

Callum Quigley

October 24, 2013 PIRSA:13100125

Chiral gauge theories in two dimensions with (0,2) supersymmetry admit a much broader, and more interesting, class of vacuum solutions than their better studied (2,2) counterparts. In this talk, we will explore some of the possibilities that are offered by this additional freedom by including field-dependent theta-angles and FI parameters. The moduli spaces that will result from this procedure correspond to heterotic string backgrounds with non-trivial H-flux and NS-brane sources. Along the way, a remarkable relationship between (0,2) gauge anomalies and H-flux will emerge.
TBA

David Favero

October 24, 2013 PIRSA:13100124
Resurgent transseries and the holomorphic anomaly
October 24, 2013 PIRSA:13100123

Topological string theory is restricted enough to be solved completely in the perturbative sector, yet it is able to compute amplitudes in physical string theory and it also enjoys large N dualities. These gauge theory duals, sometimes in the form of matrix models, can be solved past perturbation theory by plugging transseries ansätze into the so called string equation. Based on the mathematics of resurgence, developed in the 80's by J. Ecalle, this approach has been recently applied with tremendous success to matrix models and their double scaling limits (Painlevé I, etc). A natural question is if something similar can be done directly in the topological closed string sector. In this seminar I will show how the holomorphic anomaly equations of BCOV provide the starting point to derive a master equation which can be solved with a transseries ansatz. I will review the perturbative sector of the solutions, its structure, and how it generalizes for higher instanton nonperturbative sectors. Resurgence, in the guise of large order behavior of the perturbative sector, will be used to derive the holomorphicity of the instanton actions that control the asymptotics of the perturbative sector, and also to fix the holomorphic ambiguities in some cases. The example of local CP^2 will be used to illustrate these results. This work is based on 1308.1695 and on-going research in collaboration with J.D. Edelstein, R. Schiappa and M. Vonk.
TBA

Vincent Bouchard University of Alberta

October 24, 2013 PIRSA:13100122
A symplectic approach to generalized complex geometry

Marco Gualtieri University of Toronto

October 23, 2013 PIRSA:13100121

I will describe a new method for understanding a large class of
generalized complex manifolds, in which we view them as usual
symplectic structures on a manifold with a kind of log structure. I
will explain this structure in detail and explain how it can be used
to prove a Tian-Todorov unobstructedness theorem as well as
topological obstructions for existence of nondegenerate generalized
complex structures.
On refined stable pair invariants for del Pezzo surfaces and the 1/2 K3

Albrecht Klemm Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

October 23, 2013 PIRSA:13100120
Wall-crossing structures

Yan Soibelman Kansas State University

October 23, 2013 PIRSA:13100119

The concept of wall-crossing structure (WCS for short) was introduced recently in my joint work with Maxim Kontsevich. WCS appear in different disguises in the theory of Donaldson-Thomas invariants of Calabi-Yau 3-folds, quiver representations,integrable systems of Hitchin type, cluster algebras, Mirror Symmetry, etc.
I plan to discuss the definition of WCS and illustrate it in several well-known examples. If time permits I will speak about a special class of WCS called rational WCS. It gives rise to wall-crossing formulas with factors which are algebraic functions. Conjecturally such WCS appear in Hitchin integrable systems with singularities.
Blobbed topological recursion

Gaetan Borot

October 22, 2013 PIRSA:13100118

Hermitian matrix models have been used since the early days of 2d quantum gravity, as generating series of discrete surfaces, and sometimes toy models for string theory. The single trace matrix models (with measure dM exp( - N Tr V(M)) have been solved in a 1/N expansion in the 90s by the moment method of Ambjorn et al. Later, Eynard showed that it can be rewritten more intrinsically in terms of algebraic geometry of the spectral curve, and formulated the so-called topological recursion. In a similar way, we will show that double hermitian matrix models are solved by the same topological recursion, and more generally, that arbitrary hermitian matrix models are solved by a "blobbed topological recursion", whose properties still have to be investigated.
Algebraic structures in massive (2,2) theories

Davide Gaiotto Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

October 22, 2013 PIRSA:13100117

I will review some ongoing work on the low energy properties of D-branes/boundary conditions in massive two-dimensional field theories with (2,2) supersymmetry.
Exact Results In Two-Dimensional (2,2) Supersymmetric Gauge Theories With Boundary

Kentaro Hori Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU)

October 22, 2013 PIRSA:13100116

We compute the partition function on the hemisphere of a class of two-dimensional (2,2) supersymmetric field theories including gauged linear sigma models. The result provides a general exact formula for the central charge of the D-brane placed at the boundary. It takes the form of Mellin-Barnes integral and the question of its convergence leads to the grade restriction rule concerning branes near the phase boundaries. We find expressions in various phases including the large volume formula in which a characteristic class called the Gamma class shows up. The two sphere partition function factorizes into two hemispheres glued by inverse to the annulus. The result can also be written in a form familiar in mirror symmetry, and suggests a way to find explicit mirror correspondence between branes.

Title	Speaker(s)	Date	Talk Type	Info
TBA	Johannes Walcher	2013-10-25	Conference	View details
The mathematics of G_2 conifolds for M-theory	Spiro Karigiannis	2013-10-25	Conference	View details
Heterotic Flux Geometry from (0,2) Gauge Dynamics	Callum Quigley	2013-10-24	Conference	View details
TBA	David Favero	2013-10-24	Conference	View details
Resurgent transseries and the holomorphic anomaly		2013-10-24	Conference	View details
TBA	Vincent Bouchard	2013-10-24	Conference	View details
A symplectic approach to generalized complex geometry	Marco Gualtieri	2013-10-23	Conference	View details
On refined stable pair invariants for del Pezzo surfaces and the 1/2 K3	Albrecht Klemm	2013-10-23	Conference	View details
Wall-crossing structures	Yan Soibelman	2013-10-23	Conference	View details
Blobbed topological recursion	Gaetan Borot	2013-10-22	Conference	View details
Algebraic structures in massive (2,2) theories	Davide Gaiotto	2013-10-22	Conference	View details
Exact Results In Two-Dimensional (2,2) Supersymmetric Gauge Theories With Boundary	Kentaro Hori	2013-10-22	Conference	View details

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