SPACE-TIME TOPOLOGY CHANGE AND STRINGY GEOMETRY

被引：14
作者：
ASPINWALL, PS
GREENE, BR
MORRISON, DR
机构：
[1] CORNELL UNIV,FR NEWMAN LAB NUCL STUDIES,ITHACA,NY 14853
[2] DUKE UNIV,DEPT MATH,DURHAM,NC 27708
来源：
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS | 1994年 / 35卷 / 10期
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D O I：
10.1063/1.530754
中图分类号：
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号：
0702 ;
摘要：
Recent work which has significantly honed the geometric understanding and interpretation of the moduli space of certain N = 2 superconformal field theories is reviewed. This has resolved some important issues in mirror symmetry and has also established that string theory admits physically smooth processes which can result in a change in topology of the spatial universe. Recent work which illuminates some properties of physically related theories associated with singular spaces such as orbifolds is described.
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页码：5321 / 5337
页数：17
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