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Mirror Symmetry via 3-tori for a class of Calabi-Yau Threefolds
Mark Gross,P. M. H. Wilson +1 more
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In this article, the authors considered mirror symmetry for Calabi-Yau threefolds of the type considered by Voisin and Borcea, of the form SxE/involution where S is a K3 surface with involution, and E is an elliptic curve.Abstract:
We give an example of the recent proposed mirror construction of Strominger, Yau and Zaslow in ``Mirror Symmetry is T-duality,'' hep-th/9606040. The paper first considers mirror symmetry for K3 surfaces in light of this construction. We then consider the example of mirror symmetry for Calabi-Yau threefolds of the type considered by Voisin and Borcea, of the form SxE/involution where S is a K3 surface with involution, and E is an elliptic curve. We show how dualizing a family of special Lagrangian real 3-tori does actually produce the mirrors in these examples.read more
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Mirror symmetry is T duality
TL;DR: In this paper, it was argued that every Calabi-Yau manifold X with a mirror Y admits a family of supersymmetric toroidal 3-cycles and that the moduli space of such cycles together with their flat connections is precisely the space Y.
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Dual polyhedra and mirror symmetry for Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in toric varieties
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that there exists an isomorphism between two conformal field theories corresponding to Calabi-Yau varieties from two families of algebraic compactifications of affine hypersurfaces.