String Dualities and Toric Geometry: An Introduction
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-26 v1
Abstract
This note is supposed to be an introduction to those concepts of toric geometry that are necessary to understand applications in the context of string and F-theory dualities. The presentation is based on the definition of a toric variety in terms of homogeneous coordinates, stressing the analogy with weighted projective spaces. We try to give both intuitive pictures and precise rules that should enable the reader to work with the concepts presented here.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9806059,
title = {String Dualities and Toric Geometry: An Introduction},
author = {Harald Skarke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9806059},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
17 pages, Latex, 7 figures, invited paper to appear in the special issue of the Journal of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals on "Superstrings, M, F, S, ... Theory" (M.S. El Naschie and C. Castro, editors)