Gromov-Witten invariants for mirror orbifolds of simple elliptic singularities (Q2391377)

Mirror symmetry emerged as a somewhat mysterious duality between algebraic and symplectic geometry. The attempts to understand the origin of this duality resulted in the formulation of homological mirror symmetry conjectures. While these conjectures are rather general and quite abstract, in various specific situations they result in more explicit, and still non-trivial statements. In particular this is so in the analysis of mirror symmetry for simple elliptic singularities, which is the subject of this paper. In this case a conjectural isomorphism between three different Frobenius manifolds can be regarded as a prediction of the homological mirror symmetry. The Frobenius manifolds in question are constructed respectively from the theory of a weighted projective line, the invariant theory for an elliptic Weyl group, and the theory of primitive forms for a universal unfolding of a simple elliptic singularity. In particular, the isomorphism between these Frobenius manifolds explains certain surprising relations between isolated singularities, root systems and discrete groups. An interesting class of theories of a weighted projective line is that of \(\mathbb{P}^1_{\alpha_1,\alpha_2,\alpha_3}\). It has been shown recently by \textit{P. Rossi} [Math. Ann. 348, No. 2, 265--287 (2010; Zbl 1235.14053)] that the isomorphism between corresponding Frobenius manifolds mentioned above holds for \(1/\alpha_1 + 1/\alpha_2 + 1/\alpha_3 >1\). In this paper the authors analyze what happens for \(1/\alpha_1 + 1/\alpha_2 + 1/\alpha_3 =1\); the authors consider in detail the case \(\alpha_1=\alpha_2=\alpha_3 =3\) and identify the corresponding Frobenius manifolds. As a consequence of this analysis, a geometric interpretation of the Fourier coefficients of a certain modular function considered by Saito is found. The authors conduct a similar analysis for the case of \(\mathbb{P}^1_{2,2,2,2}\), which however does not have a hypersurface singularity. In both these situations the genus zero and one Gromov-Witten potentials are computed and expressed by quasi-modular forms. The analysis in the paper boils down, to much extent, to explicit computations of genus zero and genus one Gromov-Witten potentials in for \(\mathbb{P}^1_{3,3,3}\) and \(\mathbb{P}^1_{2,2,2,2}\). These results should be of interest to those working in the related topics: mirror symmetry, Frobenius manifolds, singularity theory, etc. They also provide a nice illustration of how deep ideas (in mirror symmetry) can be related to explicit computations.