Modular forms and string duality
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Modular forms and string duality
(Fields Institute communications, 54)
American Mathematical Society , Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, 2008
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Proceedings of a workshop held at the Banff International Research Station, June 3-8, 2006
Includes bibliographical references
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Description
Modular forms have long played a key role in the theory of numbers, including most famously the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Through its quest to unify the spectacularly successful theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity, string theory has long suggested deep connections between branches of mathematics such as topology, geometry, representation theory, and combinatorics. Less well-known are the emerging connections between string theory and number theory. This was indeed the subject of the workshop Modular Forms and String Duality held at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS), June 3-8, 2006.Mathematicians and physicists alike converged on the Banff Station for a week of both introductory lectures, designed to educate one another in relevant aspects of their subjects, and research talks at the cutting edge of this rapidly growing field. This book is a testimony to the BIRS Workshop, and it covers a wide range of topics at the interface of number theory and string theory, with special emphasis on modular forms and string duality. They include the recent advances as well as introductory expositions on various aspects of modular forms, motives, differential equations, conformal field theory, topological strings and Gromov-Witten invariants, mirror symmetry, and homological mirror symmetry. The contributions are roughly divided into three categories: arithmetic and modular forms, geometric and differential equations, and physics and string theory. The book is suitable for researchers working at the interface of number theory and string theory.
Table of Contents
Aspects of arithmetic and modular forms: Motives and mirror symmetry for Calabi-Yau orbifolds by S. Kadir and N. Yui String modular motives of mirrors of rigid Calabi-Yau varieties by S. Kharel, M. Lynker, and R. Schimmrigk Update on modular non-rigid Calabi-Yau threefolds by E. Lee Finite index subgroups of the modular group and their modular forms by L. Long Aspects of geometric and differential equations: Apery limits of differential equations of order 4 and 5 by G. Almkvist, D. van Straten, and W. Zudilin Hypergeometric systems in two variables, quivers, dimers and dessins d'enfants by J. Stienstra Some properties of hypergeometric series associated with mirror symmetry by D. Zagier and A. Zinger Ramanujan-type formulae for $1[LAMBDA]pi$: A second wind? by W. Zudilin Aspects of physics and string theory: Meet homological mirror symmetry by M. Ballard Orbifold Gromov-Witten invariants and topological strings by V. Bouchard Conformal field theory and mapping class groups by T. Gannon $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$ Chern-Simons theory and the asymptotic behavior of the colored Jones polynomial by S. Gukov and H. Murakami Open strings and extended mirror symmetry by J. Walcher.
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