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String Moduli Spaces and Parabolic Factorizations
Paul S. Aspinwall
The symmetric spaces that appear as moduli spaces in string theory and supergravity can be decomposed with explicit metrics using parabolic subgroups. The resulting isometry betwee…
An Unreasonably Quick Introduction to String Theory, Conformal Field Theory and Geometry
Paul S. Aspinwall
A very quick introduction to the bosonic string, conformal field theory, the superstring and geometry. No background in quantum field theory is assumed and the omissions are vast.…
Mirror Symmetry and Discriminants
Paul S. Aspinwall, M. Ronen Plesser, Kangkang Wang
We analyze the locus, together with multiplicities, of "bad" conformal field theories in the compactified moduli space of N=(2,2) superconformal field theories in the context of th…
General Mirror Pairs for Gauged Linear Sigma Models
Paul S. Aspinwall, M. Ronen Plesser
We carefully analyze the conditions for an abelian gauged linear sigma-model to exhibit nontrivial IR behavior described by a nonsingular superconformal field theory determining a…
Exoflops in Two Dimensions
Paul S. Aspinwall
An exoflop occurs in the gauged linear -model by varying the Kahler form so that a subspace appears to shrink to a point and then reemerge "outside" the original manifold. This…
Rational Curves and (0,2)-Deformations
Paul S. Aspinwall, Benjamin Gaines
We compare the count of (0,2)-deformation moduli fields for N=(2,2) conformal field theories on orbifolds and sigma-models on resolutions of the orbifold. The latter involves count…