Calabi-Yau Manifolds Over Finite Fields, II

dc.creatorCandelas, Philip
dc.creatorde la Ossa, Xenia
dc.creatorRodriguez-Villegas, Fernando
dc.date2004-02-17
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:16:38Z
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dc.descriptionWe study zeta-functions for a one parameter family of quintic threefolds defined over finite fields and for their mirror manifolds and comment on their structure. The zeta-function for the quintic family involves factors that correspond to a certain pair of genus 4 Riemann curves. The appearance of these factors is intriguing since we have been unable to `see' these curves in the geometry of the quintic. Having these zeta-functions to hand we are led to comment on their form in the light of mirror symmetry. That some residue of mirror symmetry survives into the zeta-functions is suggested by an application of the Weil conjectures to Calabi-Yau threefolds: the zeta-functions are rational functions and the degrees of the numerators and denominators are exchanged between the zeta-functions for the manifold and its mirror. It is clear nevertheless that the zeta-function, as classically defined, makes an essential distinction between Kahler parameters and the coefficients of the defining polynomial. It is an interesting question whether there is a `quantum modification' of the zeta-function that restores the symmetry between the Kahler and complex structure parameters. We note that the zeta-function seems to manifest an arithmetic analogue of the large complex structure limit which involves 5-adic expansion.
dc.descriptionPlain TeX, 50 pages, 4 eps figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0402133
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0402133
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/52435
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleCalabi-Yau Manifolds Over Finite Fields, II
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