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Calabi–Yau manifold

About: Calabi–Yau manifold is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2782 publications have been published within this topic receiving 82328 citations. The topic is also known as: Calabi–Yau space & Calabi-Yau manifold.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the prepotentials and geometry of the moduli spaces for a Calabi-Yau manifold and its mirror were derived and all the sigma model corrections to the Yukawa couplings and moduli space metric were obtained.

1,679 citations

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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.

1,607 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider F/M/Type IIA theory compactified to four, three, or two dimensions on a Calabi-Yau fourfold, and study the behavior near an isolated singularity in the presence of appropriate fluxes and branes.

1,516 citations

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TL;DR: A geometrical structure on even-dimensional manifolds is defined in this paper, which generalizes the notion of a Calabi-Yau manifold and also a symplectic manifold.
Abstract: A geometrical structure on even-dimensional manifolds is defined which generalizes the notion of a Calabi–Yau manifold and also a symplectic manifold. Such structures are of either odd or even type and can be transformed by the action both of diffeomorphisms and closed 2-forms. In the special case of six dimensions we characterize them as critical points of a natural variational problem on closed forms, and prove that a local moduli space is provided by an open set in either the odd or even cohomology. We introduce in this paper a geometrical structure on a manifold which generalizes both the concept of a Calabi–Yau manifold—a complex manifold with trivial canonical bundle—and that of a symplectic manifold. This is possibly a useful setting for the background geometry of recent developments in string theory; but this was not the original motivation for the author’s first encounter with this structure. It arose instead as part of a programme (following the papers [ 11, 12]) for characterizing special geometry in low dimensions by means of invariant functionals of differential forms. In this respect, the dimension six is particularly important. This paper has two aims, then: first to introduce the general concept, and then to look at the variational and moduli space problem in the special case of six dimensions. We begin with the definition in all dimensions of what we call generalized complex manifolds and generalized Calabi–Yau manifolds .

1,275 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the large volume limit of the scalar potential in Calabi-Yau flux compactifications of type IIB string theory, and they showed that there exists a limit in which the potential approaches zero from below, with an associated non-supersymmetric AdS minimum at exponentially large volume.
Abstract: We study the large volume limit of the scalar potential in Calabi-Yau flux compactifications of type IIB string theory. Under general circumstances there exists a limit in which the potential approaches zero from below, with an associated non-supersymmetric AdS minimum at exponentially large volume. Both this and its de Sitter uplift are tachyon-free, thereby fixing all K?hler and complex structure moduli. Also, for the class of vacua described in this paper, the gravitino mass is independent of the flux discretuum, whereas the ratio of the string scale to the 4d Planck scale is hierarchically small but flux dependent. The inclusion of ?' corrections plays a crucial role in the structure of the potential. We illustrate these ideas through explicit computations for a particular Calabi-Yau manifold.

1,232 citations

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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202389
2022195
2021126
2020139
2019145
2018130