Toric open invariants and crepant transformations

Seminar: 
Algebraic and Tropical Geometry
Event time: 
Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Renzo Cavalieri
Speaker affiliation: 
Colorado State University
Event description: 

The question that the Crepant Resolution Conjecture (CRC) wants to address is: given an orbifold $X$ that admits a crepant resolution $Y$, can we systematically compare the Gromov-Witten theories of the two spaces? That this should happen was first observed by physicists and the question was imported into mathematics by Y.Ruan, who posited it as the search for an isomorphism in the quantum cohomologies of the two spaces. In the last fifteen years this question has evolved and found different formulations which various degree of generality and validity. Perhaps the most powerful approach to the CRC is through Givental’s formalism. In this case, Coates, Corti, Iritani and Tseng propose that the CRC should consist of the natural comparison of geometric objects constructed from the GW potential for the space. We explore this approach in the setting of open GW invariants. We formulate an open version of the CRC using this formalism, and verify it for the family of $A_n$ singularities. Our approach is well tuned with Iritani’s approach to the CRC via integral structures. The natural question that I want to pose to an audience of tropically and log versed geometers is how to precisely relate open GW theory and log GW theory, and what is the role of such theories in the story of Mirror Symmetry.