Homological mirror symmetry
Simetría especular homológica
- Date
- 1994 · confidence low
- Place
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Credited to
- Maxim Kontsevich (1994)
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Mathematical conjecture seeking a systematic explanation of the mirror symmetry observed by physicists in string theory, relating the symplectic geometry of a manifold to the algebraic geometry of its mirror.
What it led to
- development of modern symplectic geometry
- Fukaya category and noncommutative geometry
- connections between theoretical physics and algebraic geometry
- new techniques in enumerative geometry