algebraic and differential geometry, a Calabi–Yau manifold, also known as a Calabi–Yau space, is a particular type of manifold which has certain properties, such...
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hypercomplex manifold. All hyperkähler manifolds are Ricci-flat and are thus Calabi–Yau manifolds. Hyperkähler manifolds were defined by Eugenio Calabi in 1979...
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journalist Steve Nadis, Yau has written a non-technical account of Calabi-Yau manifolds and string theory,[YN10] a history of Harvard's mathematics department...
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Mirror symmetry (string theory) (redirect from Mirror manifold)
between geometric objects called Calabi–Yau manifolds. The term refers to a situation where two Calabi–Yau manifolds look very different geometrically...
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the Miyaoka–Yau inequality for varieties with ample canonical bundle and the Beauville–Bogomolov decomposition for Calabi–Yau manifolds. By contrast...
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Shing-Tung Yau's resolution of the Calabi conjecture produced a number of Ricci-flat metrics on Kähler manifolds. A pseudo-Riemannian manifold is said to...
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class contains exactly one Ricci-flat metric. These are often called Calabi–Yau manifolds. However, the term is often used in slightly different ways by various...
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M-theory (section Compactification on G2 manifolds)
six-dimensional Calabi–Yau manifold. This is a special kind of geometric object named after mathematicians Eugenio Calabi and Shing-Tung Yau. Calabi–Yau manifolds offer...
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important role in G 2 {\displaystyle G_{2}} geometry". Spin(7)-manifold Calabi–Yau manifold Harvey, Reese; Lawson, H. Blaine (1982), "Calibrated geometries"...
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orientation-preserving). Riemann surfaces. Calabi–Yau manifolds. The Cartesian product of two complex manifolds. The inverse image of any noncritical value...
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