Frobenius manifolds: Isomonodromic deformations and infinitesimal period mappings (Q1386158)

A Frobenius structure on a complex analytic manifold \(M\) consists of the data of two objects on the tangent bundle \(TM\): a symmetric nondegenerate bilinear form which is flat, and a commutative associative product with unit. The contents of these notes mainly consists in a ``mise au point'' and a reformulation of known results: to B. Malgrange after the work of M. Jimbo, T. Miwa and K. Ueno; to Dubrovin and the approach given by N. Hitchin; to M. Saito and to P. Deligne. Contents. 1. Families of vector bundles on \({\mathbf P^1}\) with an integrable meromorphic connection. 2. The Riemann-Hilbert-Birkhoff problem. 3. Frobenius manifolds. 4. Saito structures and Frobenius manifolds. 5. Examples of Frobenius manifolds. Appendix A. The Riemann-Hilbert problem and its variants. Appendix B. Proofs of Theorem 3.1.3.