Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1992-04-20
Nucl.Phys. B411 (1994) 559-583
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
92pp
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(94)90462-6
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 $-960 \leq \chi \leq 960$. 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.
Klemm Albrecht
Schimmrigk Rolf
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