Ursula Whitcher, American Mathematical Society
Authors: Adriana Salerno, Ursula Whitcher, Chenglong Yu
2023 AWM Research Symposium
Number Theory at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions [Organized by Bella Tobin and Leah Sturman]
Mirror symmetry is a duality arising in physics that relates distinct families of algebraic varieties. We analyze the geometry and arithmetic of highly symmetric Calabi-Yau hypersurface pencils in Grassmannian varieties and contrast their properties to classical mirror constructions associated to hypergeometric equations.