Self-dual Manifolds and Mirror Symmetry for the Quintic Threefold
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For all m ≥ 1 we build a two-dimensional family of smooth manifolds of real dimension 3m + 2 and use it to interpolate between the anticanonical family in CP and its mirror dual. The main tool is the notion of self-dual manifold.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003