Bøker av Tristan (Howard University Hubsch

The first edition of Calabi-Yau Manifolds: A Bestiary for Physicists was the first systematic book covering Calabi-Yau spaces, related mathematics, and their application in physics. Thirty years on, this new edition explores the intense development in the field since 1992, providing an additional 400 references. It also addresses advances in machine learning and other computer-aided methods that have recently made physically relevant computations feasible, opened new avenues in the field, and begun to deliver concretely on the now 40-year-old promise of string theory. The presentation of ideas, results, and computational methods is complemented by detailed models and sample computations included throughout. This second edition also contains a new closing section, sketching a roadmap to the staggering advances of the past three decades and suggestions for future reading.--

Collects and reviews the relevant results on several major construction techniques, computation of physically relevant quantities such as massless field spectra and the Yukawa interactions, stringy corrections, and moduli space and its geometry.