1. Mirror symmetry Superstring theory and conformal eld theory has developed and was connected with algebraic geometry in the late 80's. The mirror symmetry, which implies a kind of symmetry of moduli space of Calabi-Yau varieties, is one of the most striking blows from superconformal eld theory. Since there are numerous papers available in this subject now, we will just follow the story and re...

A formula for the first Chern class of the Verlinde bundle over the moduli space of smooth genus g curves is given. A finite-dimensional argument is presented in rank 2 using geometric symmetries obtained from strange duality, relative Serre duality, and Wirtinger duality together with the projective flatness of the Hitchin connection. A derivation using conformal-block methods is presented in ...

Introduction. The hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces often appear as important examples in the context of mirror symmetry. In this paper, we describe the relation between polar duality and duality of weight systems. The duality of weights partly suggests why [CLS] produced a mirror symmetric phenomena using only a resolution of weighted hypersurface in weighted P. In fact, recently it ...

We give a survey on old and new results concerning Arnold’s strange duality. We show that most of the features of this duality continue to hold for the extension of it discovered by C. T. C. Wall and the author. The results include relations to mirror symmetry and the Leech lattice.

this paper is a slightly revised version of an introduction into singularity theory corresponding to a series of lectures given at the ``advanced school and conference on homological and geometrical methods in representation theory'' at the international centre for theoretical physics (ictp), miramare - trieste, italy, 11-29 january 2010. we show how to associate to a triple of positive integer...

We study the effect of diagram automorphisms on rank-level duality. We create new symplectic rank-level dualities from T. Abe’s symplectic rank-level duality on genus zero smooth curves with marked points and chosen coordinates. We also show that ranklevel dualities for the pair sl(r), sl(s) in genus 0 arising from representation theory can also be obtained from the parabolic strange dualities ...