27 research outputs found
Exact Lagrangian submanifolds in simply-connected cotangent bundles
We consider exact Lagrangian submanifolds in cotangent bundles. Under certain
additional restrictions (triviality of the fundamental group of the cotangent
bundle, and of the Maslov class and second Stiefel-Whitney class of the
Lagrangian submanifold) we prove such submanifolds are Floer-cohomologically
indistinguishable from the zero-section. This implies strong restrictions on
their topology. An essentially equivalent result was recently proved
independently by Nadler, using a different approach.Comment: 28 pages, 3 figures. Version 2 -- derivation and discussion of the
spectral sequence considerably expanded. Other minor change
On the full, strongly exceptional collections on toric varieties with Picard number three
We investigate full strongly exceptional collections on smooth, com- plete
toric varieties. We obtain explicit results for a large family of varieties
with Picard number three, containing many of the families already known. We
also describe the relations between the collections and the split of the push
forward of the trivial line bundle by the toric Frobenius morphism
On Bohr-Sommerfeld bases
This paper combines algebraic and Lagrangian geometry to construct a special
basis in every space of conformal blocks, the Bohr-Sommerfeld (BS) basis. We
use the method of [D. Borthwick, T. Paul and A. Uribe, Legendrian distributions
with applications to the non-vanishing of Poincar\'e series of large weight,
Invent. math, 122 (1995), 359-402, preprint hep-th/9406036], whereby every
vector of a BS basis is defined by some half-weighted Legendrian distribution
coming from a Bohr-Sommerfeld fibre of a real polarization of the underlying
symplectic manifold. The advantage of BS bases (compared to bases of theta
functions in [A. Tyurin, Quantization and ``theta functions'', Jussieu preprint
216 (Apr 1999), e-print math.AG/9904046, 32pp.]) is that we can use information
from the skillful analysis of the asymptotics of quantum states. This gives
that Bohr-Sommerfeld bases are unitary quasi-classically. Thus we can apply
these bases to compare the Hitchin connection with the KZ connection defined by
the monodromy of the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation in combinatorial theory
(see, for example, [T. Kohno, Topological invariants for 3-manifolds using
representations of mapping class group I, Topology 31 (1992), 203-230; II,
Contemp. math 175} (1994), 193-217]).Comment: 43 pages, uses: latex2e with amsmath,amsfonts,theore
Syzygy algebras for the Segre embeddings
We describe the syzygy spaces for the Segre embedding
in terms of
representations of and construct the minimal
resolutions of the sheaves
in for and . Also we prove some
property of multiplication on syzygy spaces of the Segre embedding.Comment: 17 pages, 11 picture
Multiloop Superstring Amplitudes from Non-Minimal Pure Spinor Formalism
Using the non-minimal version of the pure spinor formalism, manifestly
super-Poincare covariant superstring scattering amplitudes can be computed as
in topological string theory without the need of picture-changing operators.
The only subtlety comes from regularizing the functional integral over the pure
spinor ghosts. In this paper, it is shown how to regularize this functional
integral in a BRST-invariant manner, allowing the computation of arbitrary
multiloop amplitudes. The regularization method simplifies for scattering
amplitudes which contribute to ten-dimensional F-terms, i.e. terms in the
ten-dimensional superspace action which do not involve integration over the
maximum number of 's.Comment: 23 pages harvmac, added acknowledgemen