All Abelian Symmetries of Landau-Ginzburg Potentials

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arXiv:hep-th/9211047v2 20 Nov 1992CERN-TH.6705/92

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ALLABELIANSYMMETRIESOFLANDAU–GINZBURGPOTENTIALS

MaximilianKREUZER∗

CERN,TheoryDivision

CH–1211Geneva23,SWITZERLAND

and

HaraldSKARKE#

Institutf¨urTheoretischePhysik,Universit¨atHannover

Appelstraße2,D–3000Hannover1,GERMANY

ABSTRACT

Wepresentanalgorithmfordeterminingallinequivalentabeliansymmetriesofnon-

degeneratequasi-homogeneouspolynomialsandapplyittotherecentlyconstructedcomplete

setofLandau–GinzburgpotentialsforN=2superconformalfieldtheorieswithc=9.A

completecalculationoftheresultingorbifoldswithouttorsionincreasesthenumberofknown

spectrabyaboutonethird.Themirrorsymmetryofthesespectra,however,remainsatthe

samelowlevelasforuntwistedLandau–Ginzburgmodels.Thishappensinspiteofthefact

thatthesubclassofpotentialsforwhichtheBerglund–H¨ubschconstructionworksfeatures

perfectmirrorsymmetry.WealsomakefirststepsintothespaceoforbifoldswithZZ2torsions

byincludingextratrivialfields.

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October19921Introduction

Landau–Ginzburg(LG)models[1,2]representafairlygeneralframeworkforconstructingN=2superconformalfieldtheories,whichareneededforsupersymmetricstringvacua[3].

Theyprovide,forexample,alinkbetweenexactlysolvablemodelsandCalabi–Yaucompact-

ifications[4],andalsocontainlargeclassesofsuchmodelsasspecialcases.Ingeneral,LG

theoriescannotbesolvedexactly.Still,somebasicinformationonthemasslessspectrumof

theresultingstringmodelscanbeextractedinasimplewayfromthesuperpotentialowing

tonon-renormalizationproperties.Asabonus,ontheotherhand,averyefficientalgorithm

forthecalculationofthenumberofnon-singletrepresentationsofE6in(2,2)vacuacanbe

derivedfromtheformulaeforchargedegeneraciesofLGorbifoldsgiveninrefs.[5,6].We

thereforebelievethatitisworthwhiletoinvestsomeeffortintotheclassificationofthestring

vacuathatcanbeobtainedinthisway.

Recentlythebasisforthisworkhasbeenlaidbytheenumerationofall(deformation

classesof)non-degeneratepotentialswithcentralchargec=9[7,8].Inthepresentpaper,

asasecondstep,wecalculateallabelianorbifoldsthatcanresultfrommanifestsymmetries

atnon-singularpointsinthemodulispacesofthesepotentials,disregardinghoweverthe

possibilityofdiscretetorsions[9,10](exceptforamodestprobeintoZZ2torsions).Todoso,

weextendtheresultsofVafaandIntriligator[5,6]forthecalculationofthechiralringin

orbifoldsandproveananalogueofawell-knowntheoremforCalabi–Yaumanifolds[11]inthe

LGcontext.

Theoretically,ourresultsareinterestingforthequestionofmirrorsymmetry[12,13,14]

andfortheclassificationofN=2models.Unfortunately,forbothofthese(related)issues,

ourresultsare,inasense,negative,asevenmanyspectrawithalargeEulernumberremain

withoutmirror.Fromaphenomenologicalpointofview,however,extensionsofourcalcula-

tionstowardsincludingtorsionandnon-abelianorbifoldslookverypromising,becausenew

spectramainlyariseintherealmofsmallparticlecontentintheeffectivefieldtheory.

Insection2weshowhowthe(non-singlet)masslessspectrumofanorbifoldcan,ingeneral,

beobtainedfromtheindexandthedimensionofthechiralringinaveryefficientway.The

factthatthecomputationofneitherofthesequantitiesrequiresexplicitknowledgeofabasis

fortheringisvitalforacompleteinvestigationofallnon-degeneratecases.Onlyifthere

arestateswithleft-rightcharges(qL,qR)=(1,0)or(0,1)doweneedextrainformation.

WeshowhowtoextractthenumberofsuchstatesandthattheycanexistonlyifWitten’s

indexvanishes.Section3isquitetechnicalanddetailshowweconstruct,baseduponthe

classificationofpotentials[15],allpossible(linear)abeliansymmetries.Thereaderwhois

onlyinterestedintheresultsmaywishtoproceedtosection4.Implicationsofourfindings

arethendiscussedinthefinalsection.

2Hodgenumbers

Inthissectionwereviewtheresultsofrefs.[5,6]andusethemtoderiveanefficientalgorithm

forthecalculationofthespectrumincaseofvanishingtorsions.Wedo,however,keepthe

discussiongeneralaslongaspossible.

1Thebasicinformationaboutthemasslessspectrumof(2,2)heteroticstringmodelsis

containedinthechiralring,i.e.thenon-singularoperatorproductalgebraofchiralprimary

fields[16].Thesefieldshavealinearrelationbetweentheirconformaldimensionsandtheir

U(1)charges.TheirchargedegeneraciesareconvenientlysummarizedbythePoincar´epoly-

nomialwhich,forleft-andright-chiralfields,isdefinedas

P(t,¯t)=tr(c,c)tJ0¯t¯J0.(1)

AnalogousgeneratingfunctionscanbedefinedforthechargedegeneraciesofRamondground

statesandanti-chiralfields;theyarerelatedtooneanotherbyspectralflow[2].

ForN=2supersymmetricLGmodels,definedbyanon-degeneratequasi-homogeneous

superpotential

W(λniXi)=λdW(Xi),(2)

thePoincar´epolynomialisgivenby[17]

P(t,¯t)=P(t¯t)=󰀅1−(t¯t)1−qi

27denotethenumbersof

27and

27,h12=p11=n27,andtheEulernumberofthemanifold

isχ=2(h11−h12)=2(p12−p11)=2(n

2−qi±(θhi−1

1Namelythosewhichwouldhaveh11=0,incontradictionwiththerequirementoftheexistenceofaK¨ahlerform.