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Quantum periods, toric degenerations and intrinsic mirror symmetry

Algebraic Geometry 2025-08-26 v3

Abstract

Given a Fano variety XX, and UU an affine log Calabi-Yau variety given as the complement of an anticanonical divisor DXD \subset X, we prove that for any snc compactification YY of UU dominating XX with D=YUD' = Y\setminus U, there exists an element WDR(Y,D)W_D \in R_{(Y,D')} of the intrinsic mirror algebra whose classical periods give the regularized quantum periods of XX. Using this result, we deduce various corollaries regarding Fano mirror symmetry, in particular integrality of regularized quantum periods in large generality and the existence of Laurent mirrors to all Fano varieties whose mirrors contain a dense torus. When UU is an affine cluster variety satisfying the Fock-Goncharov conjecture, we use this result to produce a family of polytopes indexed by seeds of UU determined by enumerative invariants of the pair (X,D)(X,D) which give a family of Newton-Okounkov bodies and toric degenerations of XX. Moreover, we give an explicit description of the superpotential in the Grassmanian setting, in particular recovering the Pl\"ucker coordinate mirror discovered by Marsh and Rietsch. Finally, we use the main result to show that the quantum period sequence is equivalent to all theta function structure constants for R(X,D)R_{(X,D)} when DD is a smooth anticanonical divisor.

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@article{arxiv.2501.01408,
  title  = {Quantum periods, toric degenerations and intrinsic mirror symmetry},
  author = {Sam Johnston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.01408},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

31 pages. Various clarifications added and corrections made, notably fixing conventions in section 7. Comments welcome