Spacetime Topology Change: The Physics of Calabi-Yau Moduli Space
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-02-03 v3 alg-geom
Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
We review recent work which has significantly sharpened our geometric understanding and interpretation of the moduli space of certain =2 superconformal field theories. 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.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9311186,
title = {Spacetime Topology Change: The Physics of Calabi-Yau Moduli Space},
author = {P. S. Aspinwall and B. R. Greene and D. R. Morrison},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9311186},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
21 pages with 5 figures, harvmac and epsf. Talk delivered by Greene at STRINGS'93 Conference, Berkeley (reference added)