Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2010-04-29
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
LaTeX, 8 pages, contribution to the proceedings of Quantum Theory and Symmetries 6 (Lexington, Kentucky, July 2009)
Scientific paper
In this short note we give an overview of recent work on string propagation on stacks and applications to gauged linear sigma models. We begin by outlining noneffective orbifolds (orbifolds in which a subgroup acts trivially) and related phenomena in two-dimensional gauge theories, which realize string propagation on gerbes. We then discuss the `decomposition conjecture,' equating conformal field theories of strings on gerbes and strings on disjoint unions of spaces. Finally, we apply these ideas to gauged linear sigma models for complete intersections of quadrics, and use the decomposition conjecture to show that the Landau-Ginzburg points of those models have a geometric interpretation in terms of a (sometimes noncommutative resolution of a) branched double cover, realized via nonperturbative effects, rather than as the vanishing locus of a superpotential. These examples violate old unproven lore on GLSM's (e.g., that geometric phases must be related by birational transformations), and we conclude by observing that in these examples (and conjecturing more generally in GLSM's), the phases are instead related by Kuznetsov's `homological projective duality.'
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