Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2004-09-28
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
23 pages, Latex. For associated data, see http://www.th.physik.uni-bonn.de/People/rohsiepe/k3
Scientific paper
When studying mirror symmetry in the context of K3 surfaces, the hyperkaehler structure of K3 makes the notion of exchanging Kaehler and complex moduli ambiguous. On the other hand, the metric is not renormalized due to the higher amount of supersymmetry of the underlying superconformal field theory. Thus one can define a natural mapping from the classical K3 moduli space to the moduli space of conformal field theories. Apart from the generalization of mirror constructions for Calabi-Yau threefolds, there is a formulation of mirror symmetry in terms of orthogonal lattices and global moduli space arguments. In many cases both approaches agree perfectly - with a long outstanding exception: Batyrev's mirror construction for K3 hypersurfaces in toric varieties does not fit into the lattice picture whenever the Picard group of the K3 surface is not generated by the pullbacks of the equivariant divisors of the ambient toric variety. In this case, not even the ranks of the corresponding Picard lattices add up as expected. In this paper the connection is clarified by refining the lattice picture. We show (by explicit calculation with a computer) mirror symmetry for all families of toric K3 hypersurfaces corresponding to dual reflexive polyhedra, including the formerly problematic cases.
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