Periods and Duality Symmetries in Calabi-Yau Compactifications

Abstract

We derive the period structure of several one-modulus Calabi-Yau manifolds. With this knowledge we then obtain the generators of the duality group and the mirror map that defines the physical variable $t$ representing the radius of compactification. We also describe the fundamental region of $t$ and discuss its relation with automorphic functions. As a byproduct of our analysis we compute the non-perturbative corrections of Yukawa couplings.