String Theory on Calabi-Yau Manifolds

TL;DR

This paper introduces key aspects of quantum geometry emerging from string theory compactifications on Calabi-Yau manifolds, highlighting classical and non-perturbative geometric features.

Contribution

It provides an overview of recent developments in quantum geometry related to Calabi-Yau compactifications, including classical and non-perturbative effects.

Findings

Identification of new classical geometric features in string theory

Insights into non-perturbative effects in quantum geometry

Educational synthesis from TASI-96 lectures

Abstract

These lectures are devoted to introducing some of the basic features of quantum geometry that have been emerging from compactified string theory over the last couple of years. The developments discussed include new geometric features of string theory which occur even at the classical level as well as those which require non-perturbative effects. These lecture notes are based on an evolving set of lectures presented at a number of schools but most closely follow a series of seven lectures given at the TASI-96 summer school on Strings, Fields and Duality.