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Differential geometry and integrable systems: exploiting new links

Research Project

Project/Area Number 23H00083
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Review Section Medium-sized Section 11:Algebra, geometry, and related fields
Research InstitutionWaseda University

Principal Investigator

Guest Martin  早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 名誉研究員 (10295470)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 望月 拓郎  京都大学, 数理解析研究所, 教授 (10315971)
酒井 高司  東京都立大学, 理学研究科, 教授 (30381445)
金沢 篤  早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 准教授 (40784492)
大仁田 義裕  大阪公立大学, 数学研究所, 特別研究員 (90183764)
中村 あかね  城西大学, 理学部, 准教授 (30782130)
Project Period (FY) 2023-04-01 – 2028-03-31
Project Status Granted (Fiscal Year 2024)
Budget Amount *help
¥39,780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥30,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥9,180,000)
Fiscal Year 2025: ¥8,060,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,860,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥8,060,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,860,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥8,320,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,920,000)
KeywordsIntegrable systems / Geometry / Quantum cohomology / tt*equations / tt* equations / Isomonodromy
Outline of Research at the Start

This project will study integrable systems which are related to differential geometry and physics, focusing on problems where new progress is being made, such as the tt* equations, the Hitchin equations, and the harmonic map equations. As these problems involve links between different areas of geometry, it is necessary to combine integrable systems methods in an innovative way, in order to solve the relevant equations. This project will bring together specialists in several different areas, in order to attack such problems. Exploiting new links in this way is expected to lead to new progress.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

Progress was made by the Principal Investigator (Guest) on several aspects of the tt*-Toda equations. First, in the case of the A_n-type equations, comparisons were made between the tt*-Toda equations and the Toda equations. The difference of signs greatly affects the solvability of the equations, as well as the properties of monodromy data and asymptotic data. Second, the symplectic and Lie-theoretic structure of the monodromy data of the tt*-Toda equations was studied from various points of view. Joint research in these two areas was carried out with Chang-Shou Lin (NTU, Taiwan), Alexander Its (IUPUI, USA), Nan-Kuo-Ho (NTHU, Taiwan), and Ian McIntosh (York, UK). This was reported at several seminar talks. Progress was also made by the Co-Investigators in areas of mirror symmetry, integrable systems, and differential geometry related to this project.

Several research activities were partially supported. Guest and Ohnita were co-organisers of the 4th Taiwan-Japan Joint Conference on Differential Geometry at the NCTS, National Taiwan University, Taipei in November 2023. Guest co-organised a workshop in the series “Koriyama Geometry and Physics Days” at Nihon University (Koriyama) in March 2024. Visiting specialists from abroad included Omar Kidwai (University of Birmingham, UK), Eckhard Meinrenken (University of Toronto, Canada), Florent Schaffhauser (University of Heidelberg, Germany). Ohnita co-organised the 4th International Conference on Surfaces, Analysis, and Numerics in Differential Geometry in February 2024 at Kagawa Prefectural Hall (Takamatsu City, Kagawa).

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

Progress by the Principal Investigator this year was mainly related to sub-project (a) on the tt*-Toda equations, and sub-project (b) on the Hitchin equations.

Regarding (a1), a thorough study of the monodromy data and asymptotic data of the A_2 Toda equations was made, in order to compare and contrast with the tt*-Toda equations, with a view to future generalizations. This resulted in a preprint "Connection formulae for the radial Toda equations I" (M. A. Guest, A. R. Its, M. Kosmakov, K. Miyahara, R. Odoi, arXiv:2309.16550). The preprint "The tt*-Toda equations of A_n type" (M. A. Guest, A. R. Its, and C.-S. Lin , arXiv:2302.04597) was also updated to its final form in October 2023. Regarding (a2), joint work of Guest and N.-K. Ho on the monodromy data for the A_n tt*-Toda equations continued, and an article on this is in preparation. Also related to subproject (a), Hosono and Kanazawa made further progress with their study of the BCOV equations for Calabi-Yau varieties. Guest and O. Kidwai initiated a new project with the goal of understanding the role of the 2D and 4D tt* equations in the context of BPS solitons and the theory of Dubrovin/Joyce structures.

Regarding (b2), Guest and I. McIntosh classified real forms of the Toda equations for general Lie groups whose solvability is expected to hold, as a generalization of the known results for the A_n tt*-Toda equations. An article on this is in preparation. Also related to subproject (b), Mochizuki and Q. Li continued their joint work on harmonic bundles over noncompact Riemann surfaces.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

The focus for next year will be subprojects (a1), (a2), (b1), (b2). In addition to the task of generalizing results in the A_n case to the case of more general Lie groups, comparing tt*-Toda and Toda provides another promising direction. Although solvability of the Toda equation is more elementary than solvability of the tt*-Toda equation, the monodromy data and asymptotic data of the Toda equation presents interesting new phenomena.

Anticipated activities for next year include visits to Japan by I. McIntosh in order to continue the above work related to subproject (b2), and by N.K. Ho in order to continue the above work related to subproject (a2). Planned workshops include (1) a workshop on differential geometry and integrable systems at Waseda University, (2) a workshop in the series “Koriyama Geometry and Physics Days” at Nihon University (Koriyama). A research event co-organised by Guest, A. Its, and C.-S. Lin is also under consideration.

Report

(2 results)
  • 2023 Comments on the Screening Results   Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (13 results)

All 2024 2023 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (3 results) Journal Article (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Peer Reviewed: 5 results,  Open Access: 5 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] National Taiwan University/National Tsing-Hua University (Taiwan)(その他の国・地域)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] IUPUI(米国)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Mannheim University(ドイツ)

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] BCOV cusp forms of lattice polarized K3 surfaces2023

    • Author(s)
      Shinobu Hosono and Atsushi Kanazawa
    • Journal Title

      Adv. in Math.

      Volume: 434 Pages: 109328-109328

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.aim.2023.109328

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Harmonic metrics of generically regular semisimple Higgs bundles on noncompact Riemann surfaces2023

    • Author(s)
      Li Qiongling、Mochizuki Takuro
    • Journal Title

      Tunisian Journal of Mathematics

      Volume: 5 Issue: 4 Pages: 663-711

    • DOI

      10.2140/tunis.2023.5.663

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Variational problems for integral invariants of the second fundamental form of a map between pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.2023

    • Author(s)
      Akiyama, Rika; Sakai, Takashi; Sato, Yuichiro
    • Journal Title

      Osaka J. Math. 60, No. 4

      Volume: 60, No.4 Pages: 873-901

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Attractor mechanisms of moduli spaces of Calabi-Yau 3-folds2023

    • Author(s)
      Yu-Wei Fan, Atsushi Kanazawa
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geometry and Physics,

      Volume: 185 Pages: 104724-104724

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.geomphys.2022.104724

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] On quaternionic Keahler structures and totally complex submanifolds of quaternionic projective spaces2023

    • Author(s)
      Cho, Jong Taek; Hashimoto, Kaname; Ohnita, Yoshihiro
    • Journal Title

      Proc. 24th International Workshop on Differential Geometry

      Volume: 24 Pages: 217-238

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Solving Riemann-Hilbert problems - a test case2024

    • Author(s)
      Guest Martin
    • Organizer
      Geometry Seminar, University of Mannheim
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Solving differential equations from quantum cohomology2023

    • Author(s)
      Guest Martin
    • Organizer
      Colloquium, Tohoku University
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Stokes phenomena in geometry2023

    • Author(s)
      Guest Martin
    • Organizer
      Symposium on Nonlinear Differential Equations and the Stokes Phenomenon, OIST (Okinawa)
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Global solutions of the tt*-Toda equations of A_n type2023

    • Author(s)
      Guest Martin
    • Organizer
      Saint-Petersburg Conference in Spectral Theory and Mathematical Physics Euler Institute, St. Petersburg, online
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Funded Workshop] Modular Forms in Geometry and Physics2023

    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2023-04-13   Modified: 2025-04-17  

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