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Abigail Ward

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arXiv2025

On arborealization, Maslov data, and lack thereof

For a Weinstein manifold, we compare and contrast the properties of admitting an arboreal skeleton and admitting Maslov data. Both properties are implied by the existence of a polarization, for which a basic obstruction is that the odd Chern classes are 2-torsion. In a similar spirit we establish cohomological obstructions to the existence of arboreal skeleta and to the existence of Maslov data, exhibiting concrete examples to illustrate their failure. For instance, we show that complements of smooth anti-canonical divisors in complex projective space may fail to admit either arboreal skeleta or Maslov data. We also exhibit an example of a Weinstein manifold which admits Maslov data but does not admit an arboreal skeleton.

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arXiv2024

A universal mirror to $(\mathbb{P}^2, \Omega)$ as a birational object

We study homological mirror symmetry for $(\mathbb{P}^2, \Omega)$ viewed as an object of birational geometry, with $\Omega$ the standard meromorphic volume form. First, we construct universal objects on the two sides of mirror symmetry, focusing on the exact symplectic setting: a smooth complex scheme $U_\mathrm{univ}$ and a Weinstein manifold $M_\mathrm{univ}$, both of infinite type; and we prove homological mirror symmetry for them. Second, we consider autoequivalences. We prove that automorphisms of $U_\mathrm{univ}$ are given by a natural discrete subgroup of $\operatorname{Bir} (\mathbb{P}^2, \pm \Omega)$; and that all of these automorphisms are mirror to symplectomorphisms of $M_\mathrm{univ}$. We conclude with some applications.

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arXiv2021

Homological mirror symmetry for elliptic Hopf surfaces

We show homological mirror symmetry results relating coherent analytic sheaves on some complex elliptic surfaces and objects of certain Fukaya categories. We first define the notion of a non-algebraic Landau-Ginzburg model on $\mathbb{R} \times S^1$ and its associated Fukaya category, and show that non-Kähler sur-faces obtained by performing two logarithmic transformations to the product of the projective plane and an elliptic curve have non-algebraic Landau-Ginzburg models as their mirror spaces; this class of surface includes the classical Hopf surface $S^1\times S^3$ and other elliptic primary and secondary Hopf surfaces. We also define localization maps from the Fukaya categories associated to the Landau-Ginzburg models to partially wrapped and fully wrapped categories. We show mirror symmetry results that relate the partially wrapped and fully wrapped categories to spaces of coherent analytic sheaves on open submanifolds of the compact complex surfaces in question, and we use these results to sketch a proof of a full HMS result.

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arXiv2016

Differential Harnack Estimates for Fisher's Equation

In this paper, we derive several differential Harnack estimates (also known as Li-Yau-Hamilton-type estimates) for positive solutions of Fisher's equation. We use the estimates to obtain lower bounds on the speed of traveling wave solutions and to construct classical Harnack inequalities.

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arXiv2015

Explicit Bounds for the Pseudospectra of Various Classes of Matrices and Operators

We study the $\epsilon$-pseudospectra $\sigma_\epsilon(A)$ of square matrices $A \in \mathbb{C}^{N \times N}$. We give a complete characterization of the $\epsilon$-pseudospectrum of any $2 \times 2$ matrix and describe the asymptotic behavior (as $\epsilon \to 0$) of $\sigma_\epsilon(A)$ for any square matrix $A$. We also present explicit upper and lower bounds for the $\epsilon$-pseudospectra of bidiagonal matrices, as well as for finite rank operators.

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