String dualities and toric geometry: An introduction
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Publication:1610029
DOI10.1016/S0960-0779(98)00161-1zbMath0994.81108arXivhep-th/9806059MaRDI QIDQ1610029
Publication date: 18 August 2002
Published in: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9806059
Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02)
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