Calabi–Yau Manifolds: A Bestiary for Physicists (2nd Edition)
Calabi–Yau Manifolds: A Bestiary for Physicists
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1800616422 | 453 Pages | PDF (True) | 24 MB
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1800616422 | 453 Pages | PDF (True) | 24 MB
Calabi–Yau spaces are complex spaces with a vanishing first Chern class, or, equivalently, with a trivial canonical bundle (sheaf), so they admit a Ricci-flat Kähler metric that satisfies the vacuum Einstein equations. Used to construct possibly realistic (super)string models, they are being studied vigorously by physicists and mathematicians alike. Calabi–Yau spaces have also turned up in computations of probability amplitudes in quantum field theory. This book collects and reviews relevant results on several major techniques of (1) constructing such spaces and (2) computing physically relevant quantities such as spectra of massless fields and their Yukawa interactions. These are amended by (3) stringy corrections and (4) results about the moduli space and its geometry, including a preliminary discussion of the still conjectural universal deformation space. It also contains a lexicon of assorted terms and important results and theorems, which can be used independently.