We study how Gromov-Witten invariants of projective 3-folds transform under a standard flop and a small extremal transition in the algebro-geometric setting from the recent development of algebraic relative Gromov-Witten theory and its applications. This gives an algebro-geometric account of Witten's wall-crossing formula for correlation functions of the descendant nonlinear sigma model in adjacent geometric phases of a gauge linear sigma model and of the symplectic approach in an earlier work of An-Min Li and Yongbin Ruan on the same problem. A terse account from the stringy and the symplectic viewpoint is given in the appendix to complement and compare to the discussion in the main text.

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Let k be the algebraic closure of a finite field of odd characteristic p, and X a smooth projective scheme over the Witt ring W (k) which is geometrically connected in characteristic zero. We introduce the notion of Higgs-de Rham flow1 and prove that the category of periodic Higgs-de Rham flows over X/W(k) is equivalent to the category of Fontaine modules, hence further equivalent to the category of crystalline representations of the e ́tale fundamental group π_1(X_K ) of the generic fiber of X, after Fontaine-Laffaille and Faltings, where K is the fraction field of W(k). Moreover, we prove that every semistable Higgs bundle over the special fiber X_k of X of rank ≤ p initiates a semistable Higgs–de Rham flow and thus those of rank ≤ p − 1 with trivial Chern classes induce k-representations of π_1(X_K ). A fundamental construction in this paper is the inverse Cartier transform over a truncated Witt ring. In characteristic p, it was constructed by Ogus–Vologodsky in the nonabelian Hodge theory in positive characteristic; in the affine local case, our construction is related to the local Ogus–Vologodsky correspondence of Shiho.

In this paper, it is proved that the Hodge metric completion of the moduli space of polarized and marked Calabi-Yau manifolds, ie the Torelli space, is a complex affine manifold. As applications we prove that the period map from the Torelli space and the extended period map from its completion space, both are injective into the period domain, and that the completion space is a bounded domain of holomorphy with a complete Khler-Einstein metric. As a corollary we show that the period map from the moduli space of polarized Calabi-Yau manifolds with level m structure is also injective.

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Let <i>M</i> be a compact Khler manifold and <i>N</i> be a subvariety with codimension greater than or equal to 2. We show that there are no complete KhlerEinstein metrics on M - N . As an application, let <i>E</i> be an exceptional divisor of <i>M</i>. Then M - N cannot admit any complete KhlerEinstein metric if blow-down of <i>E</i> is a complex variety with only canonical or terminal singularities. A similar result is shown for pairs.

Let $(V, 0)$ be an isolated hypersurface singularity. We introduce a series of new derivation Lie algebras $L_{k}(V)$ associated to $(V,0)$. Its dimension is denoted as $\lambda_{k}(V)$. The $L_{k}(V)$ is a generalization of the Yau algebra $L(V)$ and $L_{0}(V)=L(V)$. These numbers $\lambda_{k}(V)$ are new numerical analytic invariants of an isolated hypersurface singularity. In this article we compute $L_1(V)$ for fewnomial isolated singularities (Binomial, Trinomial) and obtain the formulas of $L_{1}(V)$. We also formulate a sharp upper estimate conjecture for the $L_k(V)$ of weighted homogeneous isolated hypersurface singularities and we prove this conjecture for large class of singularities. Furthermore, we formulate another conjecture: $\cdots >\lambda^{(i+1)}(V) > \lambda^i(V) \cdots >\lambda^0(V) \geq \lambda_l (V),\; l=1,2,\cdots,n$. We partially prove it for binomial and trinomial singularities.

Theorem 1. Let D be an irreducible bounded symmetric domain in C', n&gt;= 2. Let F be a (nonuniform) lattice in Aut (D), ie a discrete subgroup of Aut (D) for which N:= D/F (is noncompact and) has. finite volume (wrt the locally symmetric metric induced from D). Suppose that a group F isomorphic to F (as an abstract group) acts as a discrete automorphism group on a contractible K (ihler manifold tVI. Assume that lQ/f has a finite singularity free cover M (ie M is a manifold) which is quasiprojective ie admits a compactification as a projective variety IVI and that~ I\M is of codimension at least three in~ l. Then] Q is biholomorphically equivalent to D, and f is conjugate to F in Aut (D).

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From the work of Lian, Liu, and Yau on" Mirror Principle", in the explicit computation of the Euler data Q=\{Q_0, Q_1,...\} for an equivariant concavex bundle Q=\{Q_0, Q_1,...\} over a toric manifold, there are two places the structure of the bundle comes into play:(1) the multiplicative characteric class Q=\{Q_0, Q_1,...\} of Q=\{Q_0, Q_1,...\} one starts with, and (2) the splitting type of Q=\{Q_0, Q_1,...\} . Equivariant bundles over a toric manifold has been classified by Kaneyama, using data related to the linearization of the toric action on the base toric manifold. In this article, we relate the splitting type of Q=\{Q_0, Q_1,...\} to the classifying data of Kaneyama. From these relations, we compute the splitting type of a couple of nonsplittable equivariant vector bundles over toric manifolds that may be of interest to string theory and mirror symmetry. A code in Mathematica that carries out the computation of some of these examples is attached.