CSUN Algebra, Number Theory, and Discrete Mathematics Seminar

Counting objects in algebraic geometry via symmetries

Jason Lo
California State University, Northridge

Wednesday    28 March 2018    2:30 pm–3:30 pm
Live Oak Hall 1117

Motivated by conjectures in modern physics, there are various formulas in algebraic geometry that ‘count’ curves, surfaces, or objects that live on them. In this talk, I will introduce an internal symmetry of a special class of three-dimensional complex algebraic varieties. I will discuss how this symmetry induces an action on geometric objects, and what it means for the formulas counting them.