Published 2012
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Book Section - Chapter
Chapter 6. Lectures on Topological String Theory
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Ooguri, Hirosi
Chicago
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Abstract
In string theory, one typically studies em beddings of the string worldsheet E (which is a Riemann surface) into a 10-dimensional manifold of the form X : Σ → R^(1,3) × M, with M a compact 6-dimensional manifold. In the following, we will restrict our attention to the study of supersymmetric sigma models onto the 6 compact dimensions. In particular, we will assume M to be a Calabi-Yau threefold so that the theory possesses N = (2, 2) worldsheet superconformal symmetry.
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© 2012 Springer. I would like to thank the organizers of the summer school "Strings and Fundamental Physics" for the opportunity to give this set of lectures and for their hospitality. I am also grateful to Michael Kay and Daniel Plencner for helping with this manuscript.Additional details
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- 33160
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-25947-0_6
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20120814-102100151
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2012-08-14Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-09Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Caltech Theory
- Series Name
- Lecture Notes in Physics
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 851