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Yu. I. Manin

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arXiv2022

Quantum SUSY operads

In a recent paper, we described a lifting of coordinate rings of groups, loops, quantum groups, etc. to the categoric setup of operads. In most examples of that paper, these rings are non--commutative. Quantum physics of the XX--th century added one more, quite nontrivial degree of freedom: coordinates might become fermionic. In their classical version, the fermionic coordinates anti--commute, and the resulting rings are called supersymmetric, or SUSY, ones. In this paper, we try to lift operads involving fermionic coordinates to quantum operads. We have to restrict ourselves by lifting operads of supersymmetric rings. We also show that $1D$ supersymmetric algebras have an operad structure, and we analyze their symmetries, through their relation to Adinkra graphs, dessins and codes.

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arXiv2017

Mirrors, Functoriality, and Derived Geometry

In this survey, I suggest to approach the problem of functorial properties of quantum cohomology by drawing lessons from several versions of Mirror duality involving deformation spaces.

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arXiv2011

Generalized operads and their inner cohomomorphisms

In this paper we introduce a notion of {\it generalized operad} containing as special cases various kinds of operad--like objects: ordinary, cyclic, modular, properads etc. We then construct inner cohomomorphism objects in their categories (and categories of algebras over them). We argue that they provide an approach to symmetry and moduli objects in non-commutative geometries based upon these "ring--like" structures. We give a unified axiomatic treatment of generalized operads as functors on categories of abstract labeled graphs. Finally, we extend inner cohomomorphism constructions to more general categorical contexts. This version differs from the previous ones by several local changes (including the title) and two extra references.

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arXiv2010

Combinatorial cubic surfaces and reconstruction theorems

This note contains a solution to the following problem: reconstruct the definition field and the equation of a projective cubic surface, using only combinatorial information about the set of its rational points. This information is encoded in two relations: collinearity and coplanarity of certain subsets of points. We solve this problem, assuming mild ``general position'' properties. This study is motivated by an attempt to address the Mordell--Weil problem for cubic surfaces using essentially model theoretic methods. However, the language of model theory is not used explicitly.

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arXiv2005

Iterated Shimura integrals

In this paper I continue the study of iterated integrals of modular forms and noncommutative modular symbols for $Γ\subset SL(2,\bold{Z})$ started in [Ma3]. Main new results involve a description of the iterated Shimura cohomology and the image of the iterated Shimura cocycle class inside it. The concluding section of the paper contains a concise review of the classical modular symbols for SL(2) and a discussion of open problems.

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arXiv2005

Iterated integrals of modular forms and noncommutative modular symbols

The main goal of this paper is to study properties of the iterated integrals of modular forms in the upper halfplane, eventually multiplied by $z^{s-1}$, along geodesics connecting two cusps. This setting generalizes simultaneously the theory of modular symbols and that of multiple zeta values

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arXiv2005

Manifolds with multiplication on the tangent sheaf

This is a survey of the current state of the theory of $F$--(super)manifolds $(M,\circ)$, first defined in [HeMa] and further developed in [He], [Ma2], [Me1]. Here $\circ$ is an $\Cal{O}_M$--bilinear multiplication on the tangent sheaf $\Cal{T}_M$, satisfying an integrability condition. $F$--manifolds and compatible flat structures on them furnish a useful weakening of Dubrovin's Frobenius structure which naturally arises in the quantum $K$--theory, theory of extended moduli spaces, and unfolding spaces of singularities.

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arXiv2003

Functional equations for quantum theta functions

Quantum theta functions were introduced by the author in [Ma1]. They are certain elements in the function rings of quantum tori. By definition, they satisfy a version of the classical functional equations involving shifts by the multiplicative periods. This paper shows that for a certain subclass of period lattices (compatible with the quantization form), quantum thetas satisfy an analog of another classical functional equation related to an action of the metaplectic group upon the (half of) the period matrix. In the quantum case, this is replaced by the action of the special orthogonal group on the quantization form, which provides Morita equivalent tori. The argument uses Rieffel's approach to the construction of (strong) Morita equivalence bimodules and the associativity of Rieffel's scalar products.

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arXiv2003

Moduli stacks $\bar{L}_{g,S}$

This paper is a sequel to the paper by A. Losev and Yu. Manin [LoMa1], in which new moduli stacks $\bar{L}_{g,S}$ of pointed curves were introduced. They classify curves endowed with a family of smooth points divided into two groups, such that the points of the second group are allowed to coincide. The homology of these stacks form components of the extended modular operad whose combinatorial models are further studied in [LoMa2]. In this paper the basic geometric properties of $\bar{L}_{g,S}$ are established using the notion of weighted stable pointed curves introduced recently by B. Hassett. The main result is a generalization of Keel's and Kontsevich -- Manin's theorems on the structure of $H^*(\bar{M}_{0,S}).$

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arXiv2002

Multiple zeta-motives and moduli spaces M_{0,n}

We give a natural construction of unramified over Z framed mixed Tate motives, whose periods are the multiple zeta values. Namely, for each convergent multiple zeta-value we define two boundary divisors A and B in the moduli space M_{0,n+3} of stable curves of genus zero. The corresponding multiple zeta-motive is the n-th cohomology of the pair (M_{0,n+3} -A,B).

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arXiv2000

Mirror symmetry and quantization of abelian varieties

The paper consists of two sections. The first section provides a new definition of mirror symmetry of abelian varieties making sense also over $p$-adic fields. The second section introduces and studies quantized theta-functions with two-sided multipliers, which are functions on non-commutative tori. This is an extension of an earlier work by the author. In the Introduction and in the Appendix the constructions of this paper are put into a wider context.

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arXiv1999

Invertible Cohomological Field Theories and Weil-Petersson volumes

We show that the generating function for the higher Weil-Petersson volumes of the moduli spaces of stable curves with marked points can be obtained from Witten's free energy by a change of variables given by Schur polynomials. Since this generating function has a natural extension to the moduli space of invertible Cohomological Field Theories, this suggests the existence of a ``very large phase space'', correlation functions on which include Hodge integrals studied by C. Faber and R. Pandharipande. From this formula we derive an asymptotical expression for the Weil-Petersson volume as conjectured by C. Itzykson. We also discuss a topological interpretation of the genus expansion formula of Itzykson-Zuber, as well as a related bialgebra acting upon quantum cohomology as a complex version of the classical path groupoid.

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arXiv1998

Stable maps of genus zero to flag spaces

We calculate a generating series for the virtual Euler-Poincaré characteristics of the spaces of stable maps of genus zero to flag spaces using the summation over trees technique.

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arXiv1998

Three constructions of Frobenius manifolds: a comparative study

The paper studies three classes of Frobenius manifolds: Quantum Cohomology (topological sigma-models), unfolding spaces of singularities (K. Saito's theory, Landau-Ginzburg models), and the recent Barannikov-Kontsevich construction starting with the Dolbeault complex of a Calabi-Yau manifold and conjecturally producing the B--side of the Mirror Conjecture in arbitrary dimension. Each known construction provides the relevant Frobenius manifold with an extra structure which can be thought of as a version of ``non-linear cohomology''. The comparison of thesestructures sheds some light on the general Mirror Problem: establishing isomorphisms between Frobenius manifolds of different classes. Another theme is the study of tensor products of Frobenius manifolds, corresponding respectively to the Künneth formula in Quantum Cohomology, direct sum of singularities in Saito's theory, and presumably, the tensor product of the differential Gerstenhaber-Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras. We extend the initial Gepner's construction of mirrors to the context of Frobenius manifolds and formulate the relevant mathematical conjecture.

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arXiv1997

Semisimple Frobenius (super)manifolds and quantum cohomology of $P^r$

We introduce and study a superversion of Dubrovin's notion of semisimple Frobenius manifolds. We establish a correspondence between semisimple Frobenius (super)manifolds and special solutions to the (supersymmetric) Schlesinger equations. Finally, we calculate the Schlesinger initial conditions for solutions describing quantum cohomology of projective spaces.

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arXiv1996

Sixth Painlevé Equation, Universal Elliptic Curve, and Mirror of $\bold{P}^2$

An algebro-geometric setting for the study of the Painlevé VI equation is introduced. Hamiltonian form of the equation is realized on a twisted relative cotangent bundle to the universal elliptic curve with labelled points of order two. Relations with the theory of elliptic functions and the quantum cohomology of projective plane are discussed.

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