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Spacetime Topology Change: The Physics of Calabi-Yau Moduli Space

P. S. Aspinwall, B. R. Greene, D. R. Morrison

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Abstract

We review recent work which has significantly sharpened our geometric understanding and interpretation of the moduli space of certain $N$=2 superconformal field theories. This has resolved some important issues in mirror symmetry and has also established that string theory admits physically smooth processes which can result in a change in topology of the spatial universe.

arXiv comments
21 pages with 5 figures, harvmac and epsf. Talk delivered by Greene at STRINGS'93 Conference, Berkeley (reference added)
Journal reference
Strings '93 (M. B. Halpern, G. Rivlis, and A. Sevrin, eds.), World Scientific, Singapore, 1995, pp. 241-262
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Subjects
hep-thHigh Energy Physics, Theory math.AGAlgebraic Geometry

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  1. Humanly Traversable Wormholes 1 comment

    • A few results from a quick search on changing the topology of spacetime. There was a bunch more. It seems to be an area of research anyway. https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3000 https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9311186 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1997BASI...25..571B

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