Essays on mirror manifolds.(English)Zbl 0816.00010

Cambridge, MA: International Press. vi, 502 p. (1992).
The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually.
Indexed articles:
Greene, B. R.; Plesser, M. R., An introduction to mirror manifolds, 1-30 [Zbl 0826.32023]
Candelas, Philip; de la Ossa, Xenia C.; Green, Paul S.; Parkes, Linda, A pair of Calabi-Yau manifolds as an exactly soluble superconformal theory, 31-95 [Zbl 0826.32016]
Vafa, Cumrun, Topological mirrors and quantum rings, 96-119 [Zbl 0827.58073]
Witten, Edward, Mirror manifolds and topological field theory, 120-159 [Zbl 0834.58013]
Kawamata, Yujiro, Rational curves and classification of algebraic varieties, 160-167 [Zbl 0842.14028]
Katz, Sheldon, Rational curves on Calabi-Yau threefolds, 168-180 [Zbl 0835.14015]
Ellingsrud, Geir; Strømme, Stein Arild, The number of twisted cubic curves on the general quintic threefold. (Preliminary version), 181-240 [Zbl 0824.14047]
Morrison, David R., Picard-Fuchs equations and mirror maps for hypersurfaces, 241-264 [Zbl 0841.32013]
Wilson, P. M. H., Kähler classes on Calabi-Yau threefolds – an informal survey, 265-278 [Zbl 0852.14014]
Ferrara, S.; Kounnas, C.; Lüst, D.; Zwirner, F., Automorphic functions and special Kähler geometry, 279-300 [Zbl 0827.32031]
Ferrara, S.; Louis, J., Picard-Fuchs equations and flat holomorphic connections from $$N=2$$ supergravity, 301-315 [Zbl 0823.53078]
Aspinwall, P. S.; Lütken, C. A., A new geometry from superstring theory, 316-341 [Zbl 0827.58078]
Roan, Shi-Shyr, The geometry of Calabi-Yau orbifolds, 342-348 [Zbl 0835.57015]
Giveon, Amit; Smit, Dirk-Jan, Properties of superstring vacua from (topological) Landau-Ginzburg models, 349-371 [Zbl 0827.58070]
Hübsch, Tristan; Yau, Shing-Tung, An $$SL(2,\mathbb{C})$$ action on certain Jacobian rings and the mirror map, 372-387 [Zbl 0843.32017]
Berglund, Per; Hübsch, Tristan, A generalized construction of mirror manifolds, 388-407 [Zbl 0842.32023]
Greene, B. R.; Plesser, M. R.; Roan, S.-S., New constructions of mirror manifolds: Probing moduli space far from Fermat points, 408-450 [Zbl 0826.32022]
Ran, Ziv, Deformations of Calabi-Yau Kleinfolds, 451-457 [Zbl 0827.32021]
Tian, Gang, Smoothing 3-folds with trivial canonical bundle and ordinary double points, 458-479 [Zbl 0829.32012]
Roček, Martin, Modified Calabi-Yau manifolds with torsion, 480-488 [Zbl 0859.53050]
Borcea, Ciprian, Calabi-Yau threefolds and complex multiplication, 489-502 [Zbl 0908.14016]

MSC:

 00B15 Collections of articles of miscellaneous specific interest 14-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to algebraic geometry 32-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to several complex variables and analytic spaces 53-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to differential geometry 58-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to global analysis

Keywords:

Essays; Mirror manifolds; Manifolds