1998/10/30 by Charles P. Boyer, Krzysztof Galicki
Physics and Astronomy · Mathematics · #hep-th #math.DG
published as Surveys Diff.Geom. 7 (1999) 123-184 · 59 pages, to appear in Essays on Einstein Manifolds, M. Wang and C. LeBrun, eds
arxiv created 1998/10/30 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
This is an expository paper describing the geometry of certain Sasakian-Einstein manifolds. Such manifolds have recently become of interest due to Maldacena's AdS/CFT conjecture. They describe near-horizon geometries of branes at conical singularities.