Black Hole Condensation and the Web of Calabi-Yau Manifolds
Ti-ming Chiang, Brian R. Greene, Mark Gross, Yakov Kanter
Abstract
We review recent work concerning topology changing phase transitions through black hole condensation in Type II string theory. We then also briefly describe a present study aimed at extending the known web of interconnections between Calabi-Yau manifolds. We show, for instance, that all 7555 Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in weighted projective four space are mathematically connected by extremal transitions.