Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2010-12-15
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
4 pages, 10 figures, some typos corrected and mirror clarifications added
Scientific paper
In this work we attempt to bridge the gap between heterotic orbifold models and Calabi-Yau compactifications using gauged linear sigma models (GLSMs) with (2,0) worldsheet supersymmetry. We associate a specific GLSM to a heterotic orbifold model with twisted states that have non-vanishing vacuum expectation values (VEVs): The charges of the GLSM superfields are essentially determined by the shifted momenta of these states. When a twisted state contains an oscillator excitation, a fermionic gauging is introduced on the worldsheet inducing a non-Abelian gauge bundle, e.g. the standard embedding. However, irrespectively of whether the twisted states contain oscillators or not, they can be interpreted as blow-up modes, as their VEVs are correlated with sizes of exceptional cycles in the resolved geometry. By considering marginal deformations of a GLSM in the large volume limit we are able to directly determine its effective four dimensional spectrum. In the cases considered the spectra coincide with those computed via index theorems.
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