Periodic integrals and tautological systems

DOI10.4171/JEMS/396MaRDI QIDQ2375902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bong H. Lian, Ruifang Song, Shing-Tung Yau

Publication date 25 June 2013

Published in Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2984

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yaupartial flag varietiesperiod integralsPicard-Fuchs systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Fano varieties (14J45) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Connections of hypergeometric functions with groups and algebras, and related topics (33C80) Painlevé and other special ordinary differential equations in the complex domain; classification, hierarchies (34M55)

Abstract: We study period integrals of CY hypersurfaces in a partial flag variety. We construct a holonomic system of differential equations which govern the period integrals. By means of representation theory, a set of generators of the system can be described explicitly. The results are also generalized to CY complete intersections. The construction of these new systems of differential equations have lead us to the notion of a tautological system.

Review text

The authors' purpose of this important paper is to study period integrals and deformations of \(CY\) complete intersections in homogeneous spaces. They mostly restrict to partial flag varieties. After clear and very intuitive introduction the authors prove that the universal family of \(CY\) manifolds is deformation complete. Next, they give an explicit construction of \(D\)-modules that governs the period integrals. In order to achieve this construction they introduce a special type of differential systems called \textit{tautological}. More precisely, for a fixed reductive algebraic group \(G\), to every \(G\)-variety \(X\) equipped with a very ample equivariant line bundle \(L\), they attach a system of differential operators defined on \(H^0(X,L)\), depending on a group character. They show that the system is regular holonomic when \(X\) is a homogeneous space. A number of illuminating examples are discussed. In the last section of the paper, they discuss several numerical examples and their solutions.

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