van Gemst, Karoline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3890-5932 (2023) Mirror symmetry for Dubrovin-Zhang Frobenius manifolds. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield.
Abstract
Frobenius manifolds were formally defined by Boris Dubrovin in the early 1990s, and serve as a bridge between a priori very different fields of mathematics such as integrable systems theory, enumerative geometry, singularity theory, and mathematical physics. This thesis concerns, in particular, a specific class of Frobenius manifolds constructed on the orbit space of an extension of the affine Weyl group defined by Dubrovin together with Youjin Zhang. Here, we find Landau-Ginzburg superpotentials, or B-model mirrors, for these Frobenius structures by considering the characteristic equation for Lax operators of relativistic Toda chains as proposed by Andrea Brini. As a bonus, the results open up various applications in topology, integrable hierarchies, and Gromov-Witten theory, making interesting research questions in these areas more accessible. Some such applications are considered in this thesis. The form of the determinant of the Saito metric on discriminant strata is investigated, applications to the combinatorics of Lyashko-Looijenga maps are given, and investigations into the integrable systems theoretic and enumerative geometric applications are commenced.
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Supervisors: | Brini, Andrea |
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Publicly visible additional information: | Any Mathematica code related to this project is available on request. |
Keywords: | mirror symmetry;frobenius manifolds;geometry;mathematical physics;integrable systems |
Awarding institution: | University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Mathematics and Statistics (Sheffield) |
Identification Number/EthosID: | uk.bl.ethos.883498 |
Depositing User: | Karoline van Gemst |
Date Deposited: | 13 Jun 2023 15:35 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2023 09:53 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:32948 |
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