Mirror symmetry for log del Pezzo surfaces

Abstract: If X is a del Pezzo surface and D is a smooth anti-canonical divisor, we can regard the complement X\D as a non-compact Calabi-Yau surface. I will discuss a proof of a strong form of the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow mirror symmetry conjecture for these non-compact surfaces. It turns out the mirror Calabi-Yau is a rational elliptic surface (in particular, it has an elliptic fibration onto P^1) with a singular fiber which is a chain of nodal spheres. I will discuss how we can construct special Lagrangian fibrations on these manifolds, as well as moduli of complex and symplectic structures and how hyper-Kahler rotation allows us to construct an identification of these moduli spaces. This is joint work with A. Jacob and Y.-S. Lin.

differential geometrygeometric topology

Audience: researchers in the topic

UT Dallas Geometry-Topology Seminars

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