Conjectures on spectral numbers for upper triangular matrices and for singularities

DOI10.1007/S11040-019-9327-3MaRDI QIDQ2294096zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sven Balnojan, Claus Hertling

Publication date 10 February 2020

Published in Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00388

zbMATH Keywords

chain type singularitiesmixed Hodge structuresSeifert formsspectral numbersStokes matricesupper triangular matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toeplitz, Cauchy, and related matrices (15B05) Complex surface and hypersurface singularities (32S25) Mixed Hodge theory of singular varieties (complex-analytic aspects) (32S35)

Abstract: Cecotti and Vafa proposed in 1993 a beautiful idea how to associate spectral numbers $alph{a}_1,\mathrm{...},alph{a}_{n}inmathbbR$ to real upper triangular $nimesn$ matrices $S$ with 1's on the diagonal and eigenvalues of $S^{-1}{S}^t$ in the unit sphere. Especially, $exp(-2piialph{a}_j)$ shall be the eigenvalues of $S^{-1}{S}^t$. We tried to make their idea rigorous, but we succeeded only partially. This paper fixes our results and our conjectures. For certain subfamilies of matrices their idea works marvellously, and there the spectral numbers fit well to natural (split) polarized mixed Hodge structures. We formulate precise conjectures saying how this should extend to all matrices $S$ as above. The idea might become relevant in the context of semiorthogonal decompositions in derived algebraic geometry. Our main interest are the cases of Stokes like matrices which are associated to holomorphic functions with isolated singularities (Landau-Ginzburg models). Also there we formulate precise conjectures (which overlap with expectations of Cecotti and Vafa). In the case of the chain type singularities, we have positive results. We hope that this paper will be useful for further studies of the idea of Cecotti and Vafa.

Review text

The authors develop an idea of Cecotti and Vafa dating from 1993 how to associate $n$ real spectral numbers $\alpha _j$ to a real upper triangular $n\times n$-matrix $S$ with units on the diagonal and eigenvalues of $S^{-1}S^t$ on the unit circle; the latter equal $\exp (-2\pi i\alpha _j)$. The authors are interested in cases when spectral numbers fit well to natural (split) polarized mixed Hodge structures, in cases of Stokes like matrices which are associated to holomorphic functions with isolated singularities (Landau-Ginzburg models) and in cases of chain type singularities.

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