Speaker: Sergey Galkin
Title: Joins and Hadamard products
Date: Sep 17, 2015, 16:30 - 17:30
Place: Steklov Mathematical Institute
Abstract:
I will discuss a procedure of creating new deformation classes of projective varieties by smoothing a join of two known ones.
This way starting from two elliptic curves one can obtain various interesting Calabi-Yau threefolds, some are non-simply-connected.
Also this explains that Calabi-Yau threefolds of degree 25, obtained as intersection of two Grassmannians in P^9,
are in fact linear sections of a smooth Fano sixfold.
In a sense, this procedure is a generalization of complete intersection for non-hypersurface case.
I will explain why quantum periods of such new Calabi-Yau varieties are Hadamard products of the quantum periods of original pieces. Also if the original varieties had mirror-dual functions f(x) and g(y), then a smoothing of a join will have mirror-dual function given by exterior product f(x) g(y).