Symplectic Geometry and Mirror Symmetry
Kenji Fukaya (Stony Brook University)
Mirror symmetry is a duality between pairs of Calabi-Yau manifolds that exchanges symplectic and complex geometry. On the symplectic side, the Fukaya category — whose objects are Lagrangian submanifolds and whose morphisms are Floer cochain complexes — captures the enumerative geometry of pseudo-holomorphic discs. Kontsevich's homological mirror symmetry conjecture asserts an equivalence between the derived Fukaya category and the derived category of coherent sheaves on the mirror. We survey recent progress and open problems.
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Date Filmed: June 22, 2025
Location Filmed: Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
MSC Codes: 53D37, 14J33
Funding information: Simons travel grant; NSF grant no. 1947938
A colloquium-level introduction to how symplectic geometry connects to mirror symmetry via Fukaya categories.