Semi-Calabi-Yau orbifolds and mirror pairs (Q2295471)

One of the first explicit mirror construction is due to to \textit{C. Borcea} [AMS/IP Stud. Adv. Math. 1, 717--743 (1997; Zbl 0939.14021)] and \textit{C. Voisin} [in: Journées de géométrie algébrique d'Orsay, France, juillet 20-26, 1992. Paris: Société Mathématique de France. 273--323 (1993; Zbl 0818.14014)]. Their construction material consists of two lower dimensional Calabi-Yau manifolds, \(X_{1,2}\) each equipped with an involution \(\sigma_{1,2}\) acting non-trivially on the volume form \(\sigma_{1,2}^* \omega = -\omega\). They build a new Calabi-Yau orbifold by taking the quotient of \(X_1\times X_2\) by the simultaneous action of both automorphisms \((\sigma_1,\sigma_2)\); the simultaneous action guarantees that the total volume form is preserved in the quotient. In this paper, the authors look at Borcea-Voisin like Calabi-Yau orbifolds starting with an arbitrary number of factors. Their only restriction is that they require these examples to be constructible as Berglund-Hübsch models. Using a variation of the Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence, they derive a version of mirror duality between the fixed loci of the involution. This mirrors the homological duality between the fixed loci appearing in the Borcea-Voisin duality. More precisely, when taking a certain elliptic curve for \(X_1=X_1'\) and \(X_2\) a mirror 'partner' to \(X_2'\), the fixed loci on \(X_1\times X_2\) and \(X_1' \times X_2'\) largely encode the cohomology of the crepant resolutions. In this paper, the authors generalize this pattern and in particular, by focusing on the fixed loci, they allow their construction to encompass varieties other than Calabi-Yau manifolds such as hypersurfaces of general type.