String theory and duality

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Authors Paul S. Aspinwall

Publication date 6 August 1998

Published in Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9809004, https://eudml.org/doc/232311, http://www.emis.de/journals/DMJDMV/xvol-icm/04/Aspinwall.MAN.html

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zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau threefoldheterotic stringK3-surfacesMinkowski spacemirror symmetrymoduli spacesstring dualitysupergravitysuperstring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) (3)-folds (14J30) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli (14J60) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: This is a very brief survey of some results in the geometry of string duality delivered at a lecture given at ICM 1998, Berlin. String Duality is the statement that one kind of string theory compactified on one space is equivalent in some sense to another string theory compactified on a second space. This draws a connection between two quite different spaces. Mirror symmetry is an example of this. Here we discuss mirror symmetry and another ``heterotic/type II duality which relates vector bundles on a K3 surface to a Calabi-Yau threefold.

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