Abstract
The quantum period of a variety is a generating function for certain Gromov–Witten invariants of which plays an important role in mirror symmetry. We compute the quantum periods of all –dimensional Fano manifolds. In particular we show that –dimensional Fano manifolds with very ample anticanonical bundle have mirrors given by a collection of Laurent polynomials called Minkowski polynomials. This was conjectured in joint work with Golyshev. It suggests a new approach to the classification of Fano manifolds: by proving an appropriate mirror theorem and then classifying Fano mirrors.
Our methods are likely to be of independent interest. We rework the Mori–Mukai classification of –dimensional Fano manifolds, showing that each of them can be expressed as the zero locus of a section of a homogeneous vector bundle over a GIT quotient , where is a product of groups of the form and is a representation of . When , this expresses the Fano –fold as a toric complete intersection; in the remaining cases, it expresses the Fano –fold as a tautological subvariety of a Grassmannian, partial flag manifold, or projective bundle thereon. We then compute the quantum periods using the quantum Lefschetz hyperplane theorem of Coates and Givental and the abelian/non-abelian correspondence of Bertram, Ciocan-Fontanine, Kim and Sabbah.
Citation
Tom Coates. Alessio Corti. Sergey Galkin. Alexander Kasprzyk. "Quantum periods for $3$–dimensional Fano manifolds." Geom. Topol. 20 (1) 103 - 256, 2016. https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2016.20.103
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