鏡像對稱 (弦理論)

在代數幾何和理論物理中，鏡像對稱是指卡拉比-丘流形之間的一種特殊關係，即兩種卡丘流形雖然在幾何上差別很大，但是作為弦理論的額外維度時卻是等價的。這樣的一對流形被稱為鏡像流形。

鏡像對稱最早是由物理學家發現的。1990年左右，菲利普·坎德拉斯、齊妮婭·德·拉·奧薩（Xenia de la Ossa）、保羅·格林（Paul Green）和琳達·帕克斯（Linda Parks）發現它可以用於枚舉幾何，因此激發了數學家對此的興趣。枚舉幾何是研究幾何問題解的數量的數學分支。坎德拉斯和他的合作者證明了鏡像對稱可用於計算卡丘流形上有理曲線的數目，從而解決了一個長期的難題。儘管鏡像對稱最初的方法是從物理出發的，數學上並不嚴格，它的許多數學預測已經被嚴格證明了。

目前，鏡像對稱是純數學中的熱門話題，數學家正在物理直覺的基礎上探索鏡像對稱的嚴格數學化表述。鏡像對稱也是進行弦論和量子場論計算的重要工具，這兩者都是物理學家用來描述基本粒子的理論。鏡像對稱的數學表述主要有馬克西姆·孔采維奇的同調鏡像對稱，以及安德魯·施特羅明格、丘成桐和埃里克·扎斯洛的SYZ猜想。

參見

• 唐納森–托馬斯理論
• Wall-crossing

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擴展閱讀

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教材

• Aspinwall, Paul; Bridgeland, Tom; Craw, Alastair; Douglas, Michael; Gross, Mark; Kapustin, Anton; Moore, Gregory; Segal, Graeme; Szendröi, Balázs; Wilson, P.M.H. (編). Dirichlet Branes and Mirror Symmetry. American Mathematical Society. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8218-3848-8. 
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