From Polygons to String Theory

DOI10.4169/math.mag.85.5.343zbMath1274.52020OpenAlexW7217664MaRDI QIDQ2859027

Ursula Whitcher, Charles F. Doran

Publication date: 6 November 2013

Published in: Mathematics Magazine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4169/math.mag.85.5.343

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau manifoldsLaurent polynomialsreflexive polytopesFano polytopeFano polygonmirror Laurent polynomialsmirror spacesreflexive polygons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Symmetry properties of polytopes (52B15)

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