Minkowski Polynomials and Mutations

Mohammad Akhtar ; Tom Coates ; Sergey Galkin ; Alexander M. Kasprzyk

Symmetry, integrability and geometry: methods and applications, Tome 8 (2012)

Résumé

Given a Laurent polynomial $f$, one can form the period of $f$: this is a function of one complex variable that plays an important role in mirror symmetry for Fano manifolds. Mutations are a particular class of birational transformations acting on Laurent polynomials in two variables; they preserve the period and are closely connected with cluster algebras. We propose a higher-dimensional analog of mutation acting on Laurent polynomials $f$ in $n$ variables. In particular we give a combinatorial description of mutation acting on the Newton polytope $P$ of $f$, and use this to establish many basic facts about mutations. Mutations can be understood combinatorially in terms of Minkowski rearrangements of slices of $P$, or in terms of piecewise-linear transformations acting on the dual polytope $P^*$ (much like cluster transformations). Mutations map Fano polytopes to Fano polytopes, preserve the Ehrhart series of the dual polytope, and preserve the period of $f$. Finally we use our results to show that Minkowski polynomials, which are a family of Laurent polynomials that give mirror partners to many three-dimensional Fano manifolds, are connected by a sequence of mutations if and only if they have the same period.

Détail

Keywords: mirror symmetry; Fano manifold; Laurent polynomial; mutation; cluster transformation; Minkowski decomposition; Minkowski polynomial; Newton polytope; Ehrhart series; quasi-period collapse.

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