Mirror symmetry I / Shing-Tung Yau, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yau, Shing-Tung, 1949-

Series:

AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, 2472-5153 ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mirror symmetry.

Manifolds (Mathematics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 444 p. : ill.)

Other Title:

Mirror symmetry 1

Mirror symmetry one

Place of Publication:

Providence, RI : American Mathematical Society, c1998.

System Details:

Mode of access : World Wide Web

Contents:

An introduction to mirror manifolds A pair of Calabi-Yau manifolds as an exactly soluble superconformal theory Topological mirrors and quantum rings Mirror manifolds and topological field theory Rational curves and classification of algebraic varieties Rational curves on Calabi-Yau threefolds Picard-Fuchs equations and mirror maps for hypersurfaces Kähler classes on Calabi-Yau threefolds

An informal survey Automorphic functions and special Kähler geometry Picard-Fuchs equations and flat holomorphic connections from $N = 2$ supergravity A new geometry from superstring theory The geometry of Calabi-Yau orbifolds Properties of superstring vacua from (topological) Landau-Ginzburg models An $SL(2,\mathbb {C})$ action on certain Jacobian rings and the mirror map A generalized construction of mirror manifolds New constructions of mirror manifolds: Probing moduli space far from Fermat points Deformations of Calabi-Yau Kleinfolds Smoothing 3-folds with trivial canonical bundle and ordinary double points Modified Calabi-Yau manifolds with torsion Calabi-Yau threefolds and complex multiplication

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society. 2012

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Mirror symmetry I /

ISBN:

9781470438005 (online)

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