Compactifications of moduli spaces inspired by mirror symmetry

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zbMATH Open0824.14007arXivalg-geom/9304007MaRDI QIDQ4296928FDOQ4296928


Authors: David R. Morrison Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 13 November 1995

Abstract: We study moduli spaces of nonlinear sigma-models on Calabi-Yau manifolds, using the one-loop semiclassical approximation. The data being parameterized includes a choice of complex structure on the manifold, as well as some ``extra structure described by means of classes in H^2. The expectation that this moduli space is well-behaved in these ``extra structure directions leads us to formulate a simple and compelling conjecture about the action of the automorphism group on the K"ahler cone. If true, it allows one to apply Looijenga's ``semi-toric technique to construct a partial compactification of the moduli space. We explore the implications which this construction has concerning the properties of the moduli space of complex structures on a ``mirror partner of the original Calabi-Yau manifold. We also discuss how a similarity which might have been noticed between certain work of Mumford and of Mori from the 1970's produces (with hindsight) evidence for mirror symmetry which was available in 1979. [The author is willing to mail hardcopy preprints upon request.]


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9304007




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