Essays on mirror manifolds
edited by Shing-Tung Yau.
Hong Kong : International Press, ©1992.
vi, 502 págs. ; 26 cm.
Serie: International series in mathematical physics
ISBN: 9627670014
Algunos de los trabajos fueron presentados en un workshop realizado en el Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 6-8 de mayo de 1991.
Incluye referencias bibliográficas.
Contenido
- B. R. Greene and M. R. Plesser, An introduction to mirror manifolds
- Philip Candelas, Xenia C. de la Ossa, Paul S. Green and Linda Parkes, A pair of Calabi-Yau manifolds as an exactly soluble superconformal theory
- Cumrun Vafa, Topological mirrors and quantum rings
- Edward Witten, Mirror manifolds and topological field theory
- Yujiro Kawamata, Rational curves and classification of algebraic varieties
- Sheldon Katz [Sheldon H. Katz], Rational curves on Calabi-Yau threefolds
- Geir Ellingsrud and Stein Arild Strømme, The number of twisted cubic curves on the general quintic threefold (preliminary version)
- David R. Morrison, Picard-Fuchs equations and mirror maps for hypersurfaces
- P. M. H. Wilson, Kähler classes on Calabi-Yau threefolds : an informal survey
- S. Ferrara, C. Kounnas, D. Lüst and F. Zwirner, Automorphic functions and special Kähler geometry
- S. Ferrara and J. Louis, Picard-Fuchs equations and flat holomorphic connections from $N=2$ supergravity
- P. S. Aspinwall and C. A. Lütken, A new geometry from superstring theory
- Shi-Shyr Roan [Hsi Shih Yüan], The geometry of Calabi-Yau orbifolds
- Amit Giveon and Dirk-Jan Smit, Properties of superstring vacua from (topological) Landau-Ginzburg models
- Tristan Hübsch and Shing-Tung Yau, An ${\rm SL}(2,C)$ action on certain Jacobian rings and the mirror map
- Per Berglund and Tristan Hübsch, A generalized construction of mirror manifolds
- B. R. Greene, M. R. Plesser and S.-S. Roan [Hsi Shih Yüan], New constructions of mirror manifolds: probing moduli space far from Fermat points
- Ziv Ran, Deformations of Calabi-Yau Kleinfolds
- Gang Tian, Smoothing $3$-folds with trivial canonical bundle and ordinary double points
- Martin Ro\v cek, Modified Calabi-Yau manifolds with torsion
- Ciprian Borcea, Calabi-Yau threefolds and complex multiplication.