Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1992-02-05
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
10 pages. This is a survey talk given at the May 1991 Workshop on Mirror Symmetry at MSRI
Scientific paper
By considering mirror symmetry applied to conformal field theories corresponding to strings propagating in quintic hypersurfaces in projective 4-space, Candelas, de la Ossa, Green and Parkes calculated the ``number of rational curves on the hypersurface'' by comparing three point functions. Actually, the number of curves may be infinite for special examples; what is really being calculated is a path integral. The point of this talk is to give mathematical techniques and examples for computing the finite number that ``should'' correspond to an infinite family of curves (which coincides with that given by the path integral in every known instance), and to suggest that these techniques should provide the answer to the not yet solved problem of how to calculate instanton corrections to the three point function in general.
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