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Opening Mirror Symmetry on the Quintic

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Aided by mirror symmetry, we determine the number of holomorphic disks ending on the real Lagrangian in the quintic threefold. The tension of the domainwall between the two vacua on the brane, which is the generating function for the open Gromov-Witten invariants, satisfies a certain extension of the Picard-Fuchs differential equation governing periods of the mirror quintic. We verify consistency of the monodromies under analytic continuation of the superpotential over the entire moduli space. We reproduce the first few instanton numbers by a localization computation directly in the A-model, and check Ooguri-Vafa integrality. This is the first exact result on open string mirror symmetry for a compact Calabi-Yau manifold.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0605162,
  title  = {Opening Mirror Symmetry on the Quintic},
  author = {Johannes Walcher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0605162},
  year   = {2008}
}

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26 pages. v2: minor corrections and improvements