Space-Time Transitions in String Theory

1993/06/21 by Edward Witten, Witten, Edward · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9306104

Abstract

Simple mean field methods can be used to describe transitions between different space-time models in string theory. These include transitions between different Calabi-Yau manifolds, and more exotic things such as the Calabi-Yau/Landau-Ginzberg correspondence.

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