Variations of Hodges Structure of Calabi-Yau Threefolds |
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Author:
| Voisin, Claire |
Series title: | Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-88-7642-245-4 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1988 |
Publisher: | Scuola Normale Superiore
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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This book is about Prof. Claire Voisin's lectures delivered for the "Lagrange Chair" at the University 'La Sapienza' in Rome during the fall of 1996. Their subject is dominated by mirror symmetry, which gives conjecturally a new way of describing the periods of a Calabi-Yau threefold (and eventually n-fold). We first present the variations of Hodge structure of Calabi-Yau threefolds in a "mirror symmetry independent" point of view, and then mirror symmetry. The reason for doing this is...
More DescriptionThis book is about Prof. Claire Voisin's lectures delivered for the "Lagrange Chair" at the University 'La Sapienza' in Rome during the fall of 1996. Their subject is dominated by mirror symmetry, which gives conjecturally a new way of describing the periods of a Calabi-Yau threefold (and eventually n-fold). We first present the variations of Hodge structure of Calabi-Yau threefolds in a "mirror symmetry independent" point of view, and then mirror symmetry. The reason for doing this is that these variations of Hodge structure proved to be quite special from the point of view of differential geometry and of algebraic geometry and this is not apparent from the mirror symmetry approach. Also, it may be that some algebro-geometric aspects could play a role in a better understanding of mirror symmetry.