Mirror Symmetry, Laurent Inversion and the Classification of $\mathbb{Q}$-Fano Threefolds

Abstract

We describe recent progress in a program to understand the classification of three-dimensional Fano varieties with $\mathbb{Q}$-factorial terminal singularities using mirror symmetry. As part of this we give an improved and more conceptual understanding of Laurent inversion, a technique that sometimes allows one to construct a Fano variety $X$ directly from a Laurent polynomial $f$ that corresponds to it under mirror symmetry.

32 pages, 17 figures. Comments welcome