The geometry underlying mirror symmetry
The geometry underlying mirror symmetry
The recent result of Strominger, Yau and Zaslow relating mirror symmetry to the quantum field theory notion of T-duality is reinterpreted as providing a way of characterizing geometrically which Calabi-Yau manifolds have mirror partners. The geometric description is rather surprising: one Calabi-Yau manifold should serve as a compactified, complexified moduli …