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.