We verify the Invariance Conjectures of tautological equations in genus two. In particular, a uniform derivation of all known genus two equations is given.

Let X denote an equivariant embedding of a connected reductive group X over an algebraically closed field X . Let X denote a Borel subgroup of X and let X denote a X -orbit closure in X . When the characteristic of X is positive and X is projective we prove that X is globally X -regular. As a consequence, X is normal and Cohen-Macaulay for arbitrary X and arbitrary characteristics. Moreover, in characteristic zero it follows that X has rational singularities. This extends earlier results by the second author and M. Brion.

We give a definition of character sheaves on the group compactification which is equivalent to Lusztig's definition in [G. Lusztig, Parabolic character sheaves, II, Mosc. Math. J. 4 (4) (2004) 869896]. We also prove some properties of the character sheaves on the group compactification.

We prove the existence of global sections trivializing the Hodge bundles on the Hodge metric completion space of the Torelli space of CalabiYau manifolds, a global splitting property of these Hodge bundles. We also prove that a compact CalabiYau manifold can not be deformed to its complex conjugate. These results answer certain open questions in the subject. A general result about certain period map to be bi-holomorphic from the Hodge metric completion space of the Torelli space of CalabiYau type manifolds to their period domains is proved and applied to the cases of K3 surfaces, cubic fourfolds, and hyperkhler manifolds.

Mirror principle is a general method developed in [LLY1]-[LLY4] to compute characteristic classes and characteristic numbers on moduli spaces of stable maps in terms of hypergeometric type series. The counting of the numbers of curves in Calabi-Yau manifolds from mirror symmetry corresponds to the computation of Euler numbers. This principle computes quite general Hirzebruch multiplicative classes such as the total Chern classes.