Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1995-11-09
Nucl.Phys. B484 (1997) 562-582
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
23 pages
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00557-3
Recent work initiated by Strominger has lead to a consistent physical interpretation of certain types of transitions between different string vacua. These transitions, discovered several years ago, involve singular conifold configurations which connect distinct Calabi-Yau manifolds. In this paper we discuss a number of aspects of conifold transitions pertinent to both worldsheet and spacetime mirror symmetry. It is shown that the mirror transform based on fractional transformations allows an extension of the mirror map to conifold boundary points of the moduli space of weighted Calabi-Yau manifolds. The conifold points encountered in the mirror context are not amenable to an analysis via the original splitting constructions. We describe the first examples of such nonsplitting conifold transitions, which turn out to connect the known web of Calabi-Yau spaces to new regions of the collective moduli space. We then generalize the splitting conifold transition to weighted manifolds and describe a class of connections between the webs of ordinary and weighted projective Calabi-Yau spaces. Combining these two constructions we find evidence for a dual analog of conifold transitions in heterotic N$=$2 compactifications on K3$\times $T$^2$ and in particular describe the first conifold transition of a Calabi-Yau manifold whose heterotic dual has been identified by Kachru and Vafa. We furthermore present a special type of conifold transition which, when applied to certain classes of Calabi-Yau K3 fibrations, preserves the fiber structure.
Lynker Monika
Schimmrigk Rolf
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