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Calabi-Yau spaces

A Calabi-Yau manifold is a compact Kahler[?] manifold with a vanishing first Chern class[?], and consequently is Ricci flat. Calabi-Yau manifolds of (complex) dimension three appear in (Supersymmetric[?]) String theory compactifications to four dimensions.



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