We describe combinatorial techniques for studying log Calabi-Yau surfaces. These can be viewed as generalizing the techniques for studying toric varieties in terms of their character and cocharacter lattices. These lattices are replaced by certain integral linear manifolds described in [GHK11], and monomials on toric varieties are replaced with the canonical theta functions defined in [GHK11] using ideas from mirror symmetry. We classify deformation classes of log Calabi-Yau surfaces in terms of the geometry of these integral linear manifolds. We then describe the tropicalizations of theta functions and use them to generalize the dual pairing between the character and cocharacter lattices. We use this to describe generalizations of dual cones, Newton and polar polytopes, Minkowski sums, and finite Fourier series expansions. We hope that these techniques will generalize to higher rank cluster varieties. / text

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, School of Physics, 2001. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-135).

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第22233号 / 理博第4547号 / 新制||理||1653(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科数学・数理解析専攻 / (主査)准教授 河合 俊哉, 教授 大槻 知忠, 教授 入谷 寛 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

Mirror symmetry is the phenomenon, originally discovered by physicists, that Calabi-Yau manifolds come in dual pairs, with each member of the pair producing the same physics. Mathematicians studying enumerative geometry became interested in mirror symmetry around 1990, and since then, mirror symmetry has become a major research topic in pure mathematics. One important problem in mirror symmetry is that there may be several ways to construct a mirror dual for a Calabi-Yau manifold. Hence it is a natural question to ask: when two different mirror symmetry constructions apply, do they agree?We specifically consider two mirror symmetry constructions for K3 surfaces known as BHK and LPK3 mirror symmetry. BHK mirror symmetry was inspired by the LandauGinzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence, while LPK3 mirror symmetry is more classical. In particular, for algebraic K3 surfaces with a purely non-symplectic automorphism of order n, we ask if these two constructions agree. Results of Artebani Boissi`ere-Sarti originally showed that they agree when n = 2, and more recently Comparin-Lyon-Priddis-Suggs showed that they agree when n is prime. However, the n being composite case required more sophisticated methods. Whenever n is not divisible by four (or n = 16), this problem was solved by Comparin and Priddis by studying the associated lattice theory more carefully. In this thesis, we complete the remaining case of the problem when n is divisible by four by finding new isomorphisms and deformations of the K3 surfaces in question, develop new computational methods, and use these results to complete the investigation, thereby showing that the BHK and LPK3 mirror symmetry constructions also agree when n is composite.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第20885号 / 理博第4337号 / 新制||理||1623(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科数学・数理解析専攻 / (主査)教授 望月 拓郎, 教授 中島 啓, 教授 小野 薫 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

We develop the mathematical theory of the open/closed correspondence, proposed by Mayr in physics as a class of dualities between open strings on Calabi-Yau 3-folds and closed strings on Calabi-Yau 4-folds. Given an open geometry on a toric Calabi-Yau 3-orbifold relative to a framed Aganagic-Vafa outer brane, we construct a closed geometry on a toric Calabi-Yau 4-orbifold and establish the correspondence between the two geometries on the following levels across both the A- and B-sides of mirror symmetry: numerical Gromov-Witten invariants; generating functions of Gromov-Witten invariants; B-model hypergeometric functions and Givental-style mirror theorems; Picard-Fuchs systems and solutions; integral cycles on Hori-Vafa mirrors and periods; mixed Hodge structures.

Landau-Ginzburg mirror symmetry takes place in the context of affine singularities in CN. Given such a singularity defined by a quasihomogeneous polynomial W and an appropriate group of symmetries G, one can construct the FJRW theory (see [3]). This construction fills the role of the A-model in a mirror symmetry proposal of Berglund and H ubsch [1]. The conjecture is that the A-model of W and G should match the B-model of a dual singularity and dual group (which we denote by WT and GT). The B-model construction is based on the Milnor ring, or local algebra, of the singularity. We verify this conjecture for a wide class of singularities on the level of Frobenius algebras, generalizing work of Krawitz [10]. We also review the relevant parts of the constructions.

The goal of this thesis is to investigate a conjecture about Mirror Symmetry for Landau Ginzburg (LG) models with non-abelian gauge groups. The conjecture predicts that the LG A-model for a polynomial-group pair $(W,G)$ is equivalent to the LG B-model for the dual pair $(W^*, G^*)$. In particular, the A-model and B-model include the construction of a Frobenius algebra. The LG mirror symmetry conjecture predicts that the A-model Frobenius algebra for $(W,G)$ will be isomorphic to the B-model Frobenius algebra for the dual pair $(W^*,G^*)$. Part of the conjecture includes a rule describing how to construct the dual pair. Until now, no examples of this phenomenon have been verified. In this thesis we will verify the conjecture for the polynomial $W(x_1,x_2,x_3,x_4) = x_1^4+x_2^4+x_3^4+x_4^4$ with a maximal admissible non-abelian group. I present a supplementary guide along with a worked example to compute the state spaces of each of the A and B models with non-abelian groups. This includes formalizing G-actions to take invariants, computing each state space, formalizing the product on each state space, and as the main result, showing there indeed exists an isomorphism of Graded Frobenius Algebras between the LG A-model and dual LG B-model.

This thesis is devoted to a study of applications of gauged linear sigma models. First, by constructing (0,2) analogues of Hori-Vafa mirrors, we have given and checked proposals for (0,2) mirrors to projective spaces, toric del Pezzo and Hirzebruch surfaces with tangent bundle deformations, checking not only correlation functions but also e.g. that mirrors to del Pezzos are related by blowdowns in the fashion one would expect. Also, we applied the recent proposal for mirrors of non-Abelian (2,2) supersymmetric two-dimensional gauge theories to examples of two-dimensional A-twisted gauge theories with exceptional gauge groups G_2 and E_8. We explicitly computed the proposed mirror Landau-Ginzburg orbifold and derived the Coulomb ring relations (the analogue of quantum cohomology ring relations). We also studied pure gauge theories, and provided evidence (at the level of these topologicalfield-theory-type computations) that each pure gauge theory (with simply-connected gauge group) flows in the IR to a free theory of as many twisted chiral multiplets as the rank of the gauge group. Last, we have constructed hybrid Landau-Ginzburg models that RG flow to a new family of non-compact Calabi-Yau threefolds, constructed as fiber products of genus g curves and noncompact Kahler threefolds. We only considered curves given as branched double covers of P^1. Our construction utilizes nonperturbative constructions of the genus g curves, and so provides a new set of exotic UV theories that should RG flow to sigma models on Calabi-Yau manifolds, in which the Calabi-Yau is not realized simply as the critical locus of a superpotential. / Doctor of Philosophy / This thesis is devoted to a study of vacua of supersymmetric string theory (superstring theory) by gauged linear sigma models. String theory is best known as the candidate to unify Einstein’s general relativity and quantum field theory. We are interested in theories with a symmetry exchanging bosons and fermions, known as supersymmetry. The study of superstring vacua makes it possible to connect string theory to the real world, and describe the Standard model as a low energy effective theory. Gauged linear sigma models are one of the most successful models to study superstring vacua by, for example, providing insights into the global structure of their moduli spaces. We will use gauged linear sigma models to study mirror symmetry and its heterotic generalization “(0, 2) mirror symmetry.” They are both world-sheet dualities relating different interpretations of the same (internal) superstring vacua. Mirror symmetry is a very powerful duality which exchanges classical and quantum effects. By studying mirror symmetry and (0, 2) mirror symmetry, we gain more knowledge of the properties of superstring vacua.

Une surface K3 est une surface X complexe compacte projective lisse qui a fibré canonique trivial et h0;1(X) = 0. Dans cette thèse on s'intéresse à deux problèmes pour ces surfaces. D'abord on considère des surfaces K3 obtenues comme recouvrement double de P2 ramifié le long d'une sextique. On classifie les fibrations elliptiques sur ces surfaces et leur groupe de Mordell-Weil, c'est-à-dire le groupe des sections. Vu que une section de 2-torsion définit une involution de la surface (dite involution de van Geemen-Sarti), alors en classifiant les fibrations et les section de 2-torsion on obtient une classification complète des involutions de van Geemen-Sarti sur ce type de surfaces K3. On montre aussi comment calculer l'équation de la fibration et on étudie le quotient par l'involution de van Geemen-Sarti. Ensuite on montre la construction de Berglund-Hübsch-Chiodo-Ruan (BHCR): il s'agit d'une construction miroir qui part d'un polynôme dans un espace projectif à poids et d'un groupe d'automorphismes (avec certaines propriétés) et qui donne, en toute dimension, des paires de variétés Calabi-Yau. Ces deux variétés sont l'une miroir de l'autre en sense classique. On classifie toutes les paires de surfaces K3 obtenues avec cette construction qui aient en plus un automorphisme non{symplectique d'ordre premier p > 3. Pour les surfaces K3 une autre notion de symétrie miroir a été introduite par Dolgachev et Nikulin : la symétrie pour K3 polarisées (LPK3). On montre dans la thèse comment polariser les surfaces obtenues avec la construction BHCR et on preuve que deux surfaces miroir au sense BHCR, dûment polarisées, appartiennent à deux familles miroir LPK3. / A K3 surface is a complex compact projective surface X which is smooth and such that its canonical bundle is trivial and h0;1(X) = 0. In this thesis we study two different topics about K3 surfaces. First we consider K3 surfaces obtained as double covering of P2 branched on a sextic curve. For these surfaces we classify elliptic fibrations and their Mordell-Weil group, i.e. the group of sections. A 2-torsion section induces a symplectic involution of the surface, called van Geemen-Sarti involution. The classification of elliptic fibrations and 2-torsion sections allows us to classify all van Geemen-Sarti involutions on the class of K3 surfaces we are considering. Moreover, we give details in order to obtain equations for the elliptic fibrations and their quotient by the van Geemen-Sarti involutions. Then we focus on the mirror construction of Berglund-Hübsch-Chiodo-Ruan (BHCR). This construction starts from a polynomial in a weighted projective space together with a group of diagonal automorphisms (with some properties) and gives a pair of Calabi-Yau varieties which are mirror in the classical sense. The construction works for any dimension. We use this construction to obtain pairs of K3 surfaces which carry a non-symplectic automorphism of prime order p > 3. Dolgachev and Nikulin proposed another notion of mirror symmetry for K3 surfaces: the mirror symmetry for lattice polarized K3 surfaces (LPK3). In this thesis we show how to polarize the K3 surfaces obtained from the BHCR construction and we prove that these surfaces belong to LPK3 mirror families.