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3-d Mirror Symmetry

CMSA EVENTS: CMSA COLLOQUIUM

When: April 14, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, Common Room
Address: 20 Garden Street, Cambridge 02138, United States
Speaker:  Andrey Smirnov (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

In this talk, I will discuss a version of quantum K-theory introduced by A.Okounkov, which can be defined through quasimap counts. In this framework, the quantum K-theory ring is obtained as a specialization of the equivariant quasimap count at

$q=1$, where $q$ is the equivariant parameter associated with the torus action on the source of the quasimaps.

A related, but less explored, structure emerges when $q$ is specialized at the roots of unity. I will outline the key ideas behind this construction and its implications. As an application, I’ll also describe the spectrum of $p$-curvature for the quantum connection, which offers a new proof of a recent result by P.Etingof and A.Varchenko.

This talk is based on joint work with P. Koroteev.