Lectures on complex geometry, Calabi-Yau manifolds and toric geometry Export

@article{citeulike:2573385, abstract = {These are introductory lecture notes on complex geometry, Calabi-Yau manifolds and toric geometry. We first define basic concepts of complex and Kahler geometry. We then proceed with an analysis of various definitions of Calabi-Yau manifolds. The last section provides a short introduction to toric geometry, aimed at constructing Calabi-Yau manifolds in two different ways; as hypersurfaces in toric varieties and as local toric Calabi-Yau threefolds. These lecture notes supplement a mini-course that was given by the author at the Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics 2005, and at CERN in 2007.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Bouchard, Vincent}, citeulike-article-id = {2573385}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0702063}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0702063}, day = {8}, eprint = {hep-th/0702063}, keywords = {calabi-yau, geometry, lectures, math}, month = {Feb}, posted-at = {2009-05-05 15:12:16}, priority = {2}, title = {Lectures on complex geometry, Calabi-Yau manifolds and toric geometry}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0702063}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2573385 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2573385 N2 - These are introductory lecture notes on complex geometry, Calabi-Yau manifolds and toric geometry. We first define basic concepts of complex and Kahler geometry. We then proceed with an analysis of various definitions of Calabi-Yau manifolds. The last section provides a short introduction to toric geometry, aimed at constructing Calabi-Yau manifolds in two different ways; as hypersurfaces in toric varieties and as local toric Calabi-Yau threefolds. These lecture notes supplement a mini-course that was given by the author at the Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics 2005, and at CERN in 2007. TI - Lectures on complex geometry, Calabi-Yau manifolds and toric geometry KW - calabi-yau KW - geometry KW - lectures KW - math AU - Bouchard, Vincent PY - 2007/Feb/08/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0702063 ER -