Toric complete intersections and string dualities

by M. Kreuzer (TU Vienna)

Tuesday 24 Sept 2002, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

After a brief review of toric geometry and the classification of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces I present some new results on toric complete intersections. Examples of fibrations with non-trivial fundamental group lead to new types of string dualities.

Note: Please note the unusual room.