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SUMMARY:Enumerative geometry and modularity in two-modulus K3-fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds
DESCRIPTION:Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar \nSpeaker: Chuck Doran\, Harvard CMSA \nTitle: Enumerative geometry and modularity in two-modulus K3-fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds \nAbstract: Smooth $M_m$-polarized K3-fibered Calabi-Yau (CY) 3-folds have been classified in terms of the choice of a generalized functional invariant and\, in the case $m=1$\, a generalized homological invariant. The resulting geometries generally exhibit a small number of complex structure moduli greater or equal to two. A concrete choice of these invariants realizes (almost all of) the known Calabi-Yau geometries with exactly two moduli and allows us to describe completely the structure of the corresponding moduli spaces. The corresponding variations of Hodge structure are entirely determined by the regular periods\, for which we obtain a generic expression in terms of $m$ and three integers $i\,j\,s$. Using the form of this period and Batyrev-Borisov mirror symmetry we explicitly construct the corresponding mirror CY 3-folds with two Kaehler moduli and show consistency with the DHT conjecture. In the cases with $s=0$\, the mirror CY 3-folds are again K3-fibered but with the mirror $<2m>$-polarization. The generic form of the periods allows us to derive generic modular expressions for the A-model topological string free energies and we argue that those are a consequence of a Tyurin degeneration of the generalized functional invariant with the central fiber being an $M_m$-polarized K3. This is joint work with Boris Pioline and Thorsten Schimannek.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/mathphys_10324/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry
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SUMMARY:Witten deformation for non-Morse functions and gluing formulas 
DESCRIPTION:Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry \nSpeaker: Junrong Yan (Northeastern University) \nTitle: Witten deformation for non-Morse functions and gluing formulas \nAbstract: Witten deformation is a versatile tool with numerous applications in mathematical physics and geometry. In this talk\, we will focus on the analysis of Witten deformation for a family of non-Morse functions\, which leads to a new technique for studying the gluing formulas of global spectral invariants (such as eta invariants\, analytic torsions\, and some invariants related to Feynman diagrams\, etc.). We will then discuss some applications of this new method. \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/mathphys_92624/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T100000
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SUMMARY:Feynman graph integrals from topological holomorphic theories 
DESCRIPTION:Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry Seminar \nSpeaker: Minghao Wang (Boston University) \nTitle: Feynman graph integrals from topological holomorphic theories \nAbstract: Feynman graph integrals from topological theories were developed by M. Kontsevich\, S. Axelrod and I. M. Singer in 1990s. These integrals have many mathematical applications\, such as knot invariants\, operad theory and formality theorems. In this talk\, I will talk about Feynman graph integrals from topological-holomorphic theories. In particular\, I will prove the finiteness of Feynman graph integrals when spacetime is flat spaces and a vanishing result of graph integrals. Combining the vanishing result with Batalin-Vilkovisky(BV) formalism\, we can show the absence of anomalies of topological-holomorphic theories on flat spaces with at least two topological dimensions. As a consequence\, we can construct factorization algebras of quantum observables. This is a joint with Brian Williams.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/mathphys_91924/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry
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SUMMARY:Twisted Tools for (Untwisted) Quantum Field Theory
DESCRIPTION:Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry \nSpeaker: Justin Kulp (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics) \nTitle: Twisted Tools for (Untwisted) Quantum Field Theory \nAbstract: One of the most important properties of QFTs is that they can be deformed by “turning on interactions.” Essentially every observable can be viewed as coupling the theory to some external system. Famously\, adding interactions (generically) breaks scale invariance\, leading to familiar ideas of EFTs and RG flows in the space of QFTs. An underappreciated fact is that one can actually consider flows generated by any transformation\, not just the usual scale transformations. \nIn my talk\, I will discuss a flow in the space of QFTs coming from (an analogue of) BRST symmetry. The beta-function for this “BRST-flow” controls deformations of the QFT and is highly mathematically constrained\, endowing the space of interactions with an L∞ algebra structure. The structure constants/brackets of the L∞ algebra are highly computable (requiring only a first course in QFT to compute) and contain familiar information such as anomalies and Operator Product Expansion coefficients. I will prove a non-renormalization theorem for holomorphic-topological QFTs with more than one topological direction\, which can be thought of as a generalization of a formality theorem of Kontsevich. Time permitting\, I will discuss how this formalism enables the systematic computation of minimal BPS operators in supersymmetric QFTs and describe the “holomorphic confinement” of N=1 SYM.  Based on arXiv:2403.13049.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/mathphys_91224/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics and Algebraic Geometry
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