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Hülya Argüz

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arXiv2026

Log Calabi-Yau compactifications of $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$ character varieties

We prove that the $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$ character varieties of compact oriented surfaces and the generic relative $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$ character varieties of punctured surfaces admit divisorial log terminal (dlt) log Calabi-Yau compactifications. To do this, we establish a general result giving sufficient conditions for a compactification of an affine variety arising from a filtration of its algebra of regular functions to be log Calabi-Yau. We then apply this result to show that the compactifications constructed by Kutteri-Tehrani-Frohman in the compact case and by Tehrani-Frohman in the punctured case are log canonical and log Calabi-Yau.

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arXiv2026

B-complex manifolds with generalized corners. I. Newlander-Nirenberg Theorems

We generalize complex manifolds to manifolds with corners $X$, and to manifolds with generalized corners (g-corners) in the sense of the second author arXiv:1501.00401, using complex structures on the b-tangent bundle (log tangent bundle) ${}^bTX$. We prove a formal Newlander-Nirenberg type theorem showing that along each corner stratum of $X$, the b-complex structure agrees with a standard model to infinite order. In the sequel we show that if $S$ is a log smooth log $\mathbb C$-scheme, or log smooth log complex analytic space, then the Kato-Nakayama space $S^{\rm KN}$ has the structure of a b-complex manifold with g-corners. Using our Newlander-Nirenberg theorem we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a b-complex manifold with g-corners to be a Kato-Nakayama space.

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arXiv2026

Mock modularity of log Gromov--Witten Invariants: the mirror to $\mathbb{P}^2$

We study modularity properties of generating series of logarithmic Gromov-Witten invariants of elliptic fibrations relative to singular fibers. Motivated by predictions from Vafa-Witten theory, we conjecture that such generating series are mock modular forms. We prove this conjecture for a large class of invariants of the rational elliptic surface mirror to $\mathbb{P}^2$, relative to a cycle of nine rational curves. The proof uses a correspondence between log Gromov-Witten invariants of the mirror and Vafa-Witten invariants of $\mathbb{P}^2$ established in previous work joint with Bousseau, together with known mock modularity results on the Vafa-Witten side.

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arXiv2025

Quivers, Flow Trees, and Log Curves

Donaldson-Thomas (DT) invariants of a quiver with potential can be expressed in terms of simpler attractor DT invariants by a universal formula. The coefficients in this formula are calculated combinatorially using attractor flow trees. In this paper, we prove that these coefficients are genus 0 log Gromov--Witten invariants of $d$-dimensional toric varieties, where $d$ is the number of vertices of the quiver. This result follows from a log-tropical correspondence theorem which relates $(d-2)$-dimensional families of tropical curves obtained as universal deformations of attractor flow trees, and rational log curves in toric varieties.

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arXiv2025

The KSBA moduli space of stable log Calabi-Yau surfaces

We prove that every irreducible component of the coarse Kollár-Shepherd-Barron and Alexeev (KSBA) moduli space of stable log Calabi--Yau surfaces admits a finite cover by a projective toric variety. This verifies a conjecture of Hacking-Keel-Yu. The proof combines tools from log smooth deformation theory, the minimal model program, punctured log Gromov-Witten theory and mirror symmetry.

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arXiv2025

Non-toric brane webs, Calabi-Yau 3-folds, and 5d SCFTs

We study webs of 5-branes with 7-branes in Type IIB string theory from a geometric perspective. Mathematically, a web of 5-branes with 7-branes is a tropical curve in $\mathbb{R}^2$ with focus-focus singularities introduced. To any such a web $W$, we attach a log Calabi-Yau surface $(Y,D)$ with a line bundle $L$. We then describe supersymmetric webs, which are webs defining 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs), in terms of the geometry of $(Y,D,L)$. We also introduce particular supersymmetric webs called ``consistent webs", and show that any 5d SCFT defined by a supersymmetric web can be obtained from a consistent web by adding free hypermultiplets. Using birational geometry of degenerations of log Calabi-Yau surfaces, we provide an algorithm to test the consistency of a web in terms of its dual polygon. Moreover, for a consistent web $W$, we provide an algebro-geometric construction of the mirror $\mathcal{X}^{\mathrm{can}}$ to $(Y,D,L)$, as a non-toric canonical 3-fold singularity, and show that M-theory on $\mathcal{X}^{\mathrm{can}}$ engineers the same 5d SCFT as $W$. We also explain how to derive explicit equations for $\mathcal{X}^{\mathrm{can}}$ using scattering diagrams, encoding disk worldsheet instantons in the A-model, or equivalently the BPS states of an auxiliary rank one 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theory.

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arXiv2025

Quivers and curves in higher dimension

We prove a correspondence between Donaldson-Thomas invariants of quivers with potential having trivial attractor invariants and genus zero punctured Gromov-Witten invariants of holomorphic symplectic cluster varieties. The proof relies on the comparison of the stability scattering diagram, describing the wall-crossing behavior of Donaldson-Thomas invariants, with a scattering diagram capturing punctured Gromov-Witten invariants via tropical geometry.

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arXiv2025

BPS polynomials and Welschinger invariants

We generalize Block-Göttsche polynomials, originally defined for toric del Pezzo surfaces, to arbitrary surfaces. To do this, we show that these polynomials arise as special cases of BPS polynomials, defined for any surface $S$ as Laurent polynomials in a formal variable $q$ encoding the BPS invariants of the $3$-fold $S \times \mathbb{P}^1$. We conjecture that for surfaces $S_n$ obtained by blowing up $\mathbb{P}^2$ at $n$ general points, the evaluation of BPS polynomials at $q=-1$ yields Welschinger invariants, given by signed counts of real rational curves. We prove this conjecture for all surfaces $S_n$ with $n \leq 6$.

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arXiv2023

Fock-Goncharov dual cluster varieties and Gross-Siebert mirrors

Cluster varieties come in pairs: for any $\mathcal{X}$ cluster variety there is an associated Fock-Goncharov dual $\mathcal{A}$ cluster variety. On the other hand, in the context of mirror symmetry, associated with any log Calabi-Yau variety is its mirror dual, which can be constructed using the enumerative geometry of rational curves in the framework of the Gross-Siebert program. In this paper we bridge the theory of cluster varieties with the algebro-geometric framework of Gross-Siebert mirror symmetry. Particularly, we show that the mirror to the $\mathcal{X}$ cluster variety is a degeneration of the Fock-Goncharov dual $\mathcal{A}$ cluster variety and vice versa. To do this, we investigate how the cluster scattering diagram of Gross-Hacking-Keel-Kontsevich compares with the canonical scattering diagram defined by Gross-Siebert to construct mirror duals in arbitrary dimensions. Consequently, we derive an enumerative interpretation of the cluster scattering diagram. Along the way, we prove the Frobenius structure conjecture for a class of log Calabi-Yau varieties obtained as blow-ups of toric varieties.

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arXiv2023

Real Log Curves in Toric Varieties, Tropical Curves, and Log Welschinger Invariants

We give a tropical description of the counting of real log curves in toric degenerations of toric varieties. We treat the case of genus zero curves and all non-superabundant higher-genus situations. The proof relies on log deformation theory and is a real version of the Nishinou-Siebert approach to the tropical correspondence theorem for complex curves. In dimension two, we use similar techniques to study the counting of real log curves with Welschinger signs and we obtain a new proof of Mikhalkin's tropical correspondence theorem for Welschinger invariants.

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arXiv2023

Equations of mirrors to log Calabi--Yau pairs via the heart of canonical wall structures

Gross and Siebert developed a program for constructing in arbitrary dimension a mirror family to a log Calabi--Yau pair $(X,D)$, consisting of a smooth projective variety $X$ with a normal-crossing anti-canonical divisor $D$ in $X$. In this paper, we provide an algorithm to practically compute explicit equations of the mirror family in the case when $X$ is obtained as a blow-up of a toric variety along hypersurfaces in its toric boundary, and $D$ is the strict transform of the toric boundary. The main ingredient is ``the heart of the canonical wall structure'' associated to such pairs $(X,D)$, which is constructed purely combinatorially, following our previous work with Mark Gross. In the case when we blow up a single hypersurface we show that our results agree with previous results computed symplectically by Aroux--Abouzaid--Katzarkov. In the situation when the locus of blow-up is formed by more than a single hypersurface, due to infinitely many walls interacting, writing the equations becomes significantly more challenging. We provide the first examples of explicit equations for mirror families in such situations.

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arXiv2023

Gromov-Witten Theory of Complete Intersections via Nodal Invariants

We provide an inductive algorithm computing Gromov-Witten invariants in all genera with arbitrary insertions of all smooth complete intersections in projective space. We also prove that all Gromov-Witten classes of all smooth complete intersections in projective space belong to the tautological ring of the moduli space of stable curves. The main idea is to show that invariants with insertions of primitive cohomology classes are controlled by their monodromy and by invariants defined without primitive insertions but with imposed nodes in the domain curve. To compute these nodal Gromov-Witten invariants, we introduce the new notion of nodal relative Gromov-Witten invariants. We then prove a nodal degeneration formula and a relative splitting formula. These results for nodal relative Gromov-Witten theory are stated in complete generality and are of independent interest.

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arXiv2022

The flow tree formula for Donaldson-Thomas invariants of quivers with potentials

We prove the flow tree formula conjectured by Alexandrov and Pioline which computes Donaldson-Thomas invariants of quivers with potentials in terms of a smaller set of attractor invariants. This result is obtained as a particular case of a more general flow tree formula reconstructing a consistent scattering diagram from its initial walls.

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arXiv2022

The Quantum Mirror to the Quartic del Pezzo Surface

A log Calabi--Yau surface $(X,D)$ is given by a smooth projective surface $X$, together with an anti-canonical cycle of rational curves $D \subset X$. The homogeneous coordinate ring of the mirror to such a surface, or to the complement $X\setminus D$, is constructed in the work of Gross-Hacking-Keel, following previous work of Gross-Siebert, using wall structures, and it is generated by theta functions. In our work with Mark Gross we had provided a recipe to concretely compute these theta functions from a combinatorially constructed wall structure in arbitrary dimensions. In this paper, we first apply this recipe to obtain theta functions and equations for the mirror to the quartic del Pezzo surface, denoted by $dP_4$, together with an anti-canonical cycle of $4$ rational curves. We then describe the deformation quantization of this coordinate ring, following the work of Bousseau. This gives a non-commutative algebra, generated by quantum theta functions. There is a totally different approach, due to Chekhov-Mazzocco-Rubtsov, to construct the deformation quantization using the realization of the mirror as the monodromy manifold of the Painlevé IV equation. We show that these two approaches agree.

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arXiv2021

The Higher Dimensional Tropical Vertex

We study log Calabi-Yau varieties obtained as a blow-up of a toric variety along hypersurfaces in its toric boundary. Mirrors to such varieties are constructed by Gross-Siebert from a canonical scattering diagram built by using punctured log Gromov-Witten invariants of Abramovich-Chen-Gross-Siebert. We show that there is a piecewise linear isomorphism between the canonical scattering diagram and a scattering diagram defined algortihmically, following a higher dimensional generalisation of the Kontsevich-Soibelman construction. We deduce that the punctured log Gromov-Witten invariants of the log Calabi-Yau variety can be captured from this algorithmic construction. As a particular example, we compute these invariants for a non-toric blow-up of the three dimensional projective space along two lines. This generalizes previous results of Gross-Pandharipande-Siebert on "The Tropical Vertex" to higher dimensions.

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arXiv2021

Mirror symmetry for the Tate curve via tropical and log corals

We introduce tropical corals, balanced trees in a half-space, and show that they correspond to holomorphic polygons capturing the product rule in Lagrangian Floer theory for the elliptic curve. We then prove a correspondence theorem equating counts of tropical corals to punctured log Gromov--Witten invariants of the Tate curve. This implies that the homogeneous coordinate ring of the mirror to the Tate curve is isomorphic to the degree-zero part of symplectic homology, confirming a prediction of homological mirror symmetry.

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arXiv2021

A Note on Schoen's Calabi--Yau Threefolds

We study the topology of a real Lagrangian in Schoen's Calabi--Yau threefold $X$ and compute its mod $2$ cohomology using two methods; first via a concrete Mayer--Vietoris calculation, then by an exact sequence relating the mod $2$ cohomology of the real Lagrangian to the cohomology of $X$. We conclude that these two methods agree. This in particular corrects a previous computation made by Castaño-Bernard--Matessi.

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