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(1.2) In recent years, much progress has been made, in particular by Kontsevich–Soibelman [KS00, KS06] and Gross–Siebert [GS11a]. Both of these programs are based on a conjectural geometric explanation of mirror symmetry due to Strominger, Yau and Zaslow, known as the SYZ conjecture [SYZ96]. Since its appearance, the conjecture has been amended in certain ways; a common way to formulate it today is the following. Let 𝒳∗\mathcal{X}^{\ast} be a projective family of nn-dimensional complex Calabi-Yau varieties over a punctured disk Δ∗\Delta^{\ast}, and assume that this family is maximally degenerate. The latter condition means that the monodromy transformation on the degree nn cohomology of the general fiber 𝒳t\mathcal{X}_{t} of 𝒳∗\mathcal{X}^{\ast} has a Jordan block of rank n+1n+1. Then, up to rescaling the metrics, the family 𝒳t\mathcal{X}_{t} is conjectured to converge in the Gromov-Hausdorff limit to an nn-dimensional topological manifold SS. Moreover, a general fiber 𝒳t\mathcal{X}_{t} should admit a fibration ρ:𝒳t→S\rho\colon\mathcal{X}_{t}\to S, called an SYZ fibration, whose fibers are special Lagrangian tori in 𝒳t\mathcal{X}_{t}, except over a discriminant locus of codimension at least 22 in the base SS. The mirror partner of 𝒳t\mathcal{X}_{t} can then be constructed by dualizing the torus fibration ρ\rho over the smooth locus and compactifying the result in an appropriate way (this involves deforming the dual fibration by so-called quantum corrections). We refer to the excellent survey paper [Gr13] for a more precise statement and additional background on the SYZ conjecture, as well as the Gross–Siebert program.

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