Deformations of Landau-Ginzburg models and their fibers

11/06/2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Charles Doran Iacopo Brivio
CMSA Room G10
Address: CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Algebraic Geometry in String Theory Seminar

Speaker: Andrew Harder, Lehigh University

Pre-talk Speaker: TBA: 10:00-10:30 am

Title: Deformations of Landau-Ginzburg models and their fibers

Abstract: In mirror symmetry, the dual object to a Fano variety is a Landau-Ginzburg model. Broadly, a Landau-Ginzburg model is quasi-projective variety Y with a superpotential function w, but not all such pairs correspond to Fano varieties under mirror symmetry, so a very natural question to ask is: Which Landau-Ginzburg models are mirror to Fano varieties? In this talk, I will discuss a cohomological characterization of mirrors of (semi-)Fano varieties, focusing on the case of threefolds. I’ll discuss how this characterization relates to the deformation and Hodge theory of (Y,w), and in particular, how the classification of (semi-)Fano threefolds is related to questions about moduli spaces of lattice polarized K3 surfaces.