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Lefschetz fibrations on adjoint orbits - PMA

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Motivati<strong>on</strong><br />

I want to explain the motivati<strong>on</strong> carefully, and this will take a little<br />

detour away from Lie theory. Our main motivati<strong>on</strong>s is the<br />

Mirror Symmetry C<strong>on</strong>jecture<br />

which proposes that every object has a mirror. This leaves us with<br />

the obvious questi<strong>on</strong>:<br />

◮ What is a mirror?<br />

or, more interestingly,<br />

Elizabeth Gasparim <str<strong>on</strong>g>Lefschetz</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>fibrati<strong>on</strong>s</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> <strong>adjoint</strong> <strong>orbits</strong>

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