Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Related Geometries: Lectures at a Summer School in Nordfjordeid, Norway, June 2001 / Edition 1

Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Related Geometries: Lectures at a Summer School in Nordfjordeid, Norway, June 2001 / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
3540440593
ISBN-13:
9783540440598
Pub. Date:
01/17/2003
Publisher:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN-10:
3540440593
ISBN-13:
9783540440598
Pub. Date:
01/17/2003
Publisher:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Related Geometries: Lectures at a Summer School in Nordfjordeid, Norway, June 2001 / Edition 1

Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Related Geometries: Lectures at a Summer School in Nordfjordeid, Norway, June 2001 / Edition 1

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Overview

This book is an expanded version of lectures given at a summer school on symplectic geometry in Nordfjordeid, Norway, in June 2001. The unifying feature of the book is an emphasis on Calabi-Yau manifolds. The first part discusses holonomy groups and calibrated submanifolds, focusing on special Lagrangian submanifolds and the SYZ conjecture. The second studies Calabi-Yau manifolds and mirror symmetry, using algebraic geometry. The final part describes compact hyperkahler manifolds, which have a geometric structure very closely related to Calabi-Yau manifolds.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783540440598
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date: 01/17/2003
Series: Universitext
Edition description: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Pages: 244
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

I. Riemannian Holonomy Groups and Calibrated Geometry.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Introduction to Holonomy Groups.- 3 Berger’s Classification of Holonomy Groups.- 4 Kahler Geometry and Holonomy.- 5 The Calabi Conjecture.- 6 The Exceptional Holonomy Groups.- 7 Introduction to Calibrated Geometry.- 8 Calibrated Submanifolds in—n.- 9 Constructions of SL m-folds in—m.- 10 Compact Calibrated Submanifolds.- 11 Singularities of Special Lagrangian m-folds.- 12 The SYZ Conjecture, and SL Fibrations.- II. Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Mirror Symmetry.- 13 Introduction.- 14 The Classical Geometry of Calabi-Yau Manifolds.- 15 Kahler Moduli and Gromov-Witten Invariants.- 16 Variation and Degeneration of Hodge Structures.- 17 A Mirror Conjecture.- 18 Mirror Symmetry in Practice.- 19 The Strominger-Yau-Zaslow Approach to Mirror Symmetry.- III. Compact Hyperkähler Manifolds.- 20 Introduction.- 21 Holomorphic Symplectic Manifolds.- 22 Deformations of Complex Structures.- 23 The Beauville-Bogomolov Form.- 24 Cohomology of Compact Hyperkähler Manifolds.- 25 Twistor Space and Moduli Space.- 26 Projectivity of Hyperkähler Manifolds.- 27 Birational Hyperkähler Manifolds.- 18 The (Birational) Kahler Cone.- References.
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