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Localization and Mirror Symmetry

Algebraic Geometry 2018-07-10 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

These notes were born out of a five-hour lecture series for graduate students at the May 2018 Snowbird workshop Crossing the Walls in Enumerative Geometry. After a short primer on equivariant cohomology and localization, we provide proofs of the genus-zero mirror theorems for the quintic threefold, first in Fan-Jarvis-Ruan-Witten theory and then in Gromov-Witten theory. We make no claim to originality, except in exposition, where special emphasis is placed on peeling away the standard technical machinery and viewing the mirror theorems as closed-formula manifestations of elementary localization recursions.

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@article{arxiv.1807.02544,
  title  = {Localization and Mirror Symmetry},
  author = {Dustin Ross},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.02544},
  year   = {2018}
}

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24 pages, comments welcome

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