Mirror symmetry, Kobayashi's duality, and Saito's duality (Q2472546)

The paper under review discusses several dualities in Calabi-Yau manifolds, mainly concentrating on \(K3\) surfaces. There are Arnold's strange duality stemming from simple \(K3\) hypersurface singularities, Kobayashi's duality of weight systems, Batyrev's polar duality, K. Saito's duality between characteristic polynomials of the monodromy operators of the corresponding dual singularities, etc. The reviewer [IAS/Park City Math. Ser. 9, 507--569 (2001; Zbl 1097.14033)] asked whether there are any possible relations among all these dualities and mirror symmetry. This paper gives a partial answer to this question, extending the earlier result of the author [J. Lond. Math. Soc. 61, No. 3, 823--834 (2000; Zbl 0966.32017)] that Saito's duality is derived from polar duality. \textit{M. Kobayashi} [Duality of weights, mirror symmetry and Arnold's strange duality, \url{arXiv:math.AG/9502004}] introduced a notion of duality of weight systems. In this paper, this notion is toned down to a notion called a coupling. Then it is shown that coupling induces relation between the reduced zeta function of the monodromy operators of the corresponding singularities. This generalizes an operation of \textit{K. Saito} [Asian J. Math. 2, No. 4, 983--1047 (1998; Zbl 0963.32023)] concerning Arnold's strange duality. It is also shown that the weight systems of the mirror symmetric pairs of M. Reid's list of \(95\) families of Gorenstein \(K3\) surfaces in weighted projective \(3\)-spaces are strongly coupled. This includes Arnold's strange duality where the corresponding weight systems are strongly dual in Kobayashi's original sense. Finally extension of Arnold's strange duality by the author and \textit{C. T. C. Wall} [Compos. Math. 56, 3--77 (1985; Zbl 0586.14033)] also is shown to correspond to mirror symmetry.