Geometric physics

DOI10.4171/DMS/1-1/19MaRDI QIDQ1129861zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Cumrun Vafa

Publication date 24 August 1998

Published in Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9810149, http://www.emis.de/journals/DMJDMV/xvol-icm/00/Vafa.MAN.html

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zbMATH Keywords

dualitygauge bundlesminimal submanifolds of Calabi-Yau manifoldsmirror symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: Talk given at ICM '98, Berlin, reviewing some of the recent developments in understanding of string theory for a mathematical audience (to appear in Documenta Mathematica).

Review text

This paper is a non-technical review of the notion of duality which was discovered in the physical context of string theory but has given rise to deep conjectures of a purely mathematical nature as well. After giving a very general definition of the concept of duality, the author devotes three sections of the paper to special examples. The first and best understood example is known as mirror symmetry and relates string theory on one target manifold with another. The second example has become known as ``geometric engineering of quantum field theories and relates singularities of the geometry to gauge bundles for the dual theory. The third example consists in a dual description of black hole geometry which is intimately related to properties of minimal submanifolds of Calabi-Yau manifolds. The paper concludes with a list of open questions which pertain, among others, to enumerative geometry.

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• String theory and duality
• The Geometry Underlying Mirror Symmetry
• Geometric aspects of mirror symmetry.

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