Number theory casting a look at the mirror

arXivmath/0008237MaRDI QIDQ6470586FDOQ6470586

Wadim Zudilin

Publication date: 31 August 2000

Abstract: In this work, we give a purely analytic introduction to the phenomenon of mirror symmetry for quintic threefolds via classical hypergeometric functions and differential equations for them. Starting with a modular map and recent transcendence results for its values, we regard a mirror map $z(q)$ as a concept generalizing the modular one. We give an alternative approach demonstrating the existence of non-linear differential equations for the mirror map, and exploit both an elegant construction of Klemm-Lian-Roan-Yau and the Ax theorem to prove that the Yukawa coupling $K(q)$ does not satisfy any algebraic differential equation of order less than 7 with coefficients from $mathbbC(q)$.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized hypergeometric series, ({}_pF_q) (33C20) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Transcendence theory of other special functions (11J91) Monodromy; relations with differential equations and (D)-modules (complex-analytic aspects) (32S40)

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