Colloquium Schedule for 2001-2 |

Mirror symmetry


Professor Conan Leung
University of Minnesota




Mirror symmetry is a duality transformation between the complex geometry and the symplectic geometry of two Calabi-Yau manifolds. It gives highly non-trivialpredictions in the enumerative geometry.

In this talk, we explain this conjectural duality in terms of the Fouriertransformation and the Legendre transformation. This verifies the conjecture for semi-flat Calabi-Yau manifolds.

We will discuss such duality transformations on G2 manifolds and Hyperkahler manifolds.In the latter case, we obtain a general Plucker formula for dual varieties.