Lie Groups Seminar

Nicolas TemplierCornell University
Mirror symmetry for minuscule flag varieties

Friday, September 16, 2016 - 3:30pm
Malott 406

We prove cases of Rietsch mirror conjecture that the Dubrovin quantum connection for projective homogeneous varieties is isomorphic to the pushforward D-module attached to Berenstein-Kazhdan geometric crystals. The idea is to recognize the quantum connection as Galois and the geometric crystal as automorphic. We reveal relations with the works of Frenkel-Gross, Heinloth-Ngo-Yun and Zhu on Kloosterman sheaves. It implies combinatorial identities for the counts of rational curves and the Peterson variety presentation as corollaries. Work with Thomas Lam.