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Geometry/Physics Seminar

Title: Hypertoric mirror symmetry
Speaker: Ben Webster
Speaker Info: University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Brief Description: Research Talk
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Meeting ID: 988 8144 3994

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Abstract: I’ve frequently heard the assertion that “hyperkahler manifolds are self-mirror up to rotation.” I’m not so sure this is true in general, but I know one example of such a variety: multiplicative hypertoric varieties; these are what happens when you cut up a real torus into polytopes, and then send the polytopes to have a toric hyperkahler party. I’ll discuss recent work with Gammage and McBreen showing that self-homological homological mirror symmetry after rotation holds in this case and do my best to show how this fits in with a larger story of K-theoretic Coulomb branches.

Date: Thursday, November 05, 2020
Time: 3:00pm
Where: Meeting ID: 988 8144 3994
Contact Person: Dogancan Karabas
Contact email: dogancan.karabas@northwestern.edu
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