On the classification of reflexive polyhedra

DOI10.1007/S002200050100MaRDI QIDQ1360337zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maximilian Kreuzer, Harald Skarke

Publication date 7 September 1998

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9512204

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau conditionminimal polytopesmirror symmetryreflexive pairs of polyhedrastring theorytoric varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Symmetry properties of polytopes (52B15)

Abstract: Reflexive polyhedra encode the combinatorial data for mirror pairs of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in toric varieties. We investigate the geometrical structures of circumscribed polytopes with a minimal number of facets and of inscribed polytopes with a minimal number of vertices. These objects, which constrain reflexive pairs of polyhedra from the interior and the exterior, can be described in terms of certain non-negative integral matrices. A major tool in the classification of these matrices is the existence of a pair of weight systems, indicating a relation to weighted projective spaces. This is the corner stone for an algorithm for the construction of all dual pairs of reflexive polyhedra that we expect to be efficient enough for an enumerative classification in up to 4 dimensions, which is the relevant case for Calabi-Yau compactifications in string theory.

Review text

The Calabi-Yau condition for hypersurfaces of toric varieties is known to be equivalent to the reflexivity of a certain underlying polyhedron defined on an integer lattice. Moreover, the duality of reflexive polyhedra corresponds in this association to the mirror symmetry of the resulting Calabi-Yau manifolds. The authors investigate the geometrical structures of minimal polytopes containing the original polytope, i.e. circumscribed polytopes with a minimal number of facets and inscribed polyhedra with a minimal number of vertices. These objects, which put constraints on reflexive pairs of polyhedra, can be described in terms of certain non-negative integral matrices. A classification algorithm is deduced. This algorithm is proven to be finite and is used to reobtain the known 16 2-dimensional polyhedra. It is also expected to be efficient enough for a classification of polyhedra in dimensions less or equal to 4, this last dimension being relevant for the Calabi-Yau compactifications in string theory.

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