Landau-Ginzburg string vacua.

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DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90462-6zbMATH Open1049.81601arXivhep-th/9204060OpenAlexW3106300520MaRDI QIDQ1967572FDOQ1967572


Authors: Albrecht Klemm, Rolf Schimmrigk Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 6 March 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate a class of (2,2) supersymmetric string vacua which may be represented as Landau--Ginzburg theories with a quasihomogeneous potential which has an isolated singularity at the origin. There are at least three thousand distinct models in this class. All vacua of this type lead to Euler numbers which lie in the range 960leqchileq960. The Euler characteristics do not pair up completely hence the space of Landau--Ginzburg ground states is not mirror symmetric even though it exhibits a high degree of symmetry. We discuss in some detail the relation between Landau--Ginzburg models and Calabi--Yau manifolds and describe a subtlety regarding Landau--Ginzburg potentials with an arbitrary number of fields. We also show that the use of topological identities makes it possible to relate Landau-Ginzburg theories to types of Calabi-Yau manifolds for which the usual Landau-Ginzburg framework does not apply.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9204060




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