Mirror symmetry for quasi-smooth Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces

Abstract: We consider a

d

-dimensional well-formed weighted projective space

m a t h b b P (o v e r l i n e w)

as a toric variety associated with a fan

S i g m a (o v e r l i n e w)

in

N_{o v e r l i n e w} o t i m e s m a t h b b N

whose

1

-dimensional cones are spanned by primitive vectors

v_{0}, v_{1}, l d o t s, v_{d} i n N_{o v e r l i n e w}

generating a lattice

N_{o v e r l i n e w}

and satisfying the linear relation

s u m_{i} w_{i} v_{i} = 0

. For any fixed dimension

d

, there exist only finitely many weight vectors

o v e r l i n e w = (w_{0}, l d o t s, w_{d})

such that

m a t h b b P (o v e r l i n e w)

contains a quasi-smooth Calabi-Yau hypersurface

X_{w}

defined by a transverse weighted homogeneous polynomial

W

of degree

w = s u m_{i = 0}^{d} w_{i}

. Using a formula of Vafa for the orbifold Euler number

c h i_{m o r b} (X_{w})

, we show that for any quasi-smooth Calabi-Yau hypersurface

X_{w}

the number

(- 1)^{d - 1} c h i_{m o r b} (X_{w})

equals the stringy Euler number

c h i_{m s t r} (X_{o v e r l i n e w}^{*})

of Calabi-Yau compactifications

X_{o v e r l i n e w}^{*}

of affine toric hypersurfaces

Z_{o v e r l i n e w}

defined by non-degenerate Laurent polynomials

f_{o v e r l i n e w} i n m a t h b b C [N_{o v e r l i n e w}]

with Newton polytope

e x t c o n v (v_{0}, l d o t s, v_{d})

. In the moduli space of Laurent polynomials

f_{o v e r l i n e w}

there always exists a special point

f_{o v e r l i n e w}^{0}

defining a mirror

X_{o v e r l i n e w}^{*}

with a

m a t h b b Z / w m a t h b b Z

-symmetry group such that

X_{o v e r l i n e w}^{*}

is birational to a quotient of a Fermat hypersurface via a Shioda map.

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