Calabi-Yau moduli space, mirror manifolds and spacetime topology change in string theory

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90321-2zbMath0899.32006arXivhep-th/9309097OpenAlexW3101243841WikidataQ56067098 ScholiaQ56067098MaRDI QIDQ1320421

Paul S. Aspinwall, Brian R. Greene, David R. Morrison

Publication date: 30 May 1994

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9309097

zbMATH Keywords

mirror symmetry string theory \(\sigma\)-models moduli of spaces of Calabi-Yau three-folds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81) Period matrices, variation of Hodge structure; degenerations (32G20) Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81) (3)-folds (14J30) Families, moduli, classification: algebraic theory (14J10)

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