Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1995-07-27
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 46 (1996) 248-262
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
27 pages; harvmac
Scientific paper
10.1016/0920-5632(96)00026-6
As a continuation of \lianyaufour, we study modular properties of the periods, the mirror maps and Yukawa couplings for multi-moduli Calabi-Yau varieties. In Part A of this paper, motivated by the recent work of Kachru-Vafa, we degenerate a three-moduli family of Calabi-Yau toric varieties along a codimension one subfamily which can be described by the vanishing of certain Mori coordinate, corresponding to going to the ``large volume limit'' in a certain direction. Then we see that the deformation space of the subfamily is the same as a certain family of K3 toric surfaces. This family can in turn be studied by further degeneration along a subfamily which in the end is described by a family of elliptic curves. The periods of the K3 family (and hence the original Calabi-Yau family) can be described by the squares of the periods of the elliptic curves. The consequences include: (1) proofs of various conjectural formulas of physicists \vk\lkm~ involving mirror maps and modular functions; (2) new identities involving multi-variable hypergeometric series and modular functions -- generalizing \lianyaufour. In Part B, we study for two-moduli families the perturbation series of the mirror map and the type A Yukawa couplings near certain large volume limits. Our main tool is a new class of polynomial PDEs associated with Fuchsian PDE systems. We derive the first few terms in the perturbation series. For the case of degree 12 hypersurfaces in $\P^4[6,2,2,1,1]$, in one limit the series of the couplings are expressed in terms of the $j$ function. In another limit, they are expressed in terms of rational functions. The latter give explicit formulas for infinite sequences of ``instanton numbers'' $n_d$.
Lian Bong H.
Yau Shing-Tung
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