nLab mirror map

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Idea

Mirror symmetry is in fact a duality involving families of varieties. Dependence on the moduli is defined using the mirror map, which can therefore be described using corresponding Gauss-Manin connection and corresponding Picard-Fuchs equations.

References

  • S. Hosono, Albrecht Klemm, Stefan Theisen, Shing-Tung Yau, Mirror symmetry, mirror map and applications to Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces, Commun. Math. Phys. 167 (1995) 301-350 [doi:10.1007/BF02100589, arXiv:hep-th/9308122]

  • Bong H. Lian, Shing-Tung Yau, Arithmetic properties of mirror map and quantum coupling, Commun. Math. Phys. 176 (1996) 163–191 doi

  • B. Lian, S-T. Yau, Mirror symmetry, rational curves on algebraic manifolds and hypergeometric series, 163–183 in: XIth International Congress of Mathematical Physics (Paris 1994), Daniel Iagolnitzer (eds.), Intern. Press 1995

  • Bong H. Lian, Shing-Tung Yau, Mirror maps, modular relations and hypergeometric series I, arXiv:hep-th/9507151

  • Bong H. Lian, Shing-Tung Yau, Mirror maps, modular relations and hypergeometric series II, arXiv:hep-th Nuclear Physics B - Proc. Suppl. 46:1–3 (1996) 248–262 doi

Number theoretic examples are studied in

  • Gert Almkvist, Wadim Zudilin, Differential equations, mirror maps and zeta values, arXiv:math.NT

A criterium when a mirror map is in fact a elliptic modular function is in

A special case of mirror maps is discussed in video

  • Julien Roques, Hypergeometric mirror maps, yt

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