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Phases of N = 2 theories in two dimensions
- NUCL. PHYS. B
, 1993
"... By looking at phase transitions which occur as parameters are varied in supersymmetric gauge theories, a natural relation is found between sigma models based on Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces and Landau-Ginzburg models. The construction permits one to recover the known corres ..."
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By looking at phase transitions which occur as parameters are varied in supersymmetric gauge theories, a natural relation is found between sigma models based on Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces and Landau-Ginzburg models. The construction permits one to recover the known correspondence between these types of models and to greatly extend it to include new classes of manifolds and also to include models with (0, 2) world-sheet supersymmetry. The construction also predicts the possibility of certain physical processes involving a change in the topology of space-time.
Calabi-Yau moduli space, mirror manifolds and spacetime topology change in string theory
- Nucl. Phys. B
, 1994
"... We analyze the moduli spaces of Calabi-Yau threefolds and their associated conformally invariant nonlinear σ-models and show that they are described by an unexpectedly rich geometrical structure. Specifically, the Kähler sector of the moduli space of such Calabi-Yau conformal theories admits a decom ..."
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We analyze the moduli spaces of Calabi-Yau threefolds and their associated conformally invariant nonlinear σ-models and show that they are described by an unexpectedly rich geometrical structure. Specifically, the Kähler sector of the moduli space of such Calabi-Yau conformal theories admits a decomposition into adjacent domains some of which correspond to the (complexified) Kähler cones of topologically distinct manifolds. These domains are separated by walls corresponding to singular Calabi-Yau spaces in which the spacetime metric has degenerated in certain regions. We show that the union of these domains is isomorphic to the complex structure moduli space of a single topological Calabi-Yau space — the mirror. In this way we resolve a puzzle for mirror symmetry raised by the apparent asymmetry between the Kähler and complex structure moduli spaces of a Calabi-Yau manifold. Furthermore, using mirror symmetry, we show that we can interpolate in a physically smooth manner between any two theories represented by distinct points in the Kähler moduli space, even if such points correspond to topologically distinct spaces. Spacetime topology change in string theory, therefore, is realized by the most basic operation of deformation by a truly marginal operator. Finally, this work also yields some important insights on the nature of orbifolds in string theory.
The Orbifold Chow Ring of Toric Deligne-Mumford Stacks
- JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
, 2004
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Gröbner geometry of Schubert polynomials
- Ann. Math
"... Schubert polynomials, which a priori represent cohomology classes of Schubert varieties in the flag manifold, also represent torus-equivariant cohomology classes of certain determinantal loci in the vector space of n ×n complex matrices. Our central result is that the minors defining these “matrix S ..."
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Schubert polynomials, which a priori represent cohomology classes of Schubert varieties in the flag manifold, also represent torus-equivariant cohomology classes of certain determinantal loci in the vector space of n ×n complex matrices. Our central result is that the minors defining these “matrix Schubert varieties” are Gröbner bases for any antidiagonal term order. The Schubert polynomials are therefore positive sums of monomials, each monomial representing the torus-equivariant cohomology class of a component (a scheme-theoretically reduced coordinate subspace) in the limit of the resulting Gröbner degeneration. Interpreting the Hilbert series of the flat limit in equivariant K-theory, another corollary of the proof is that Grothendieck polynomials represent the classes of Schubert varieties in K-theory of the flag manifold. An inductive procedure for listing the limit coordinate subspaces is provided by the proof of the Gröbner basis property, bypassing what has come to be known as Kohnert’s conjecture [Mac91]. The coordinate subspaces, which are
Quantum cohomology rings of toric manifolds
, 1993
"... We compute the quantum cohomology ring H ∗ ϕ(PΣ,C) of an arbitrary d-dimensional smooth projective toric manifold PΣ associated with a fan Σ. The multiplicative structure of H ∗ ϕ (PΣ,C) depends on the choice of an element ϕ in the ordinary cohomology group H 2 (PΣ,C). There are many properties of q ..."
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We compute the quantum cohomology ring H ∗ ϕ(PΣ,C) of an arbitrary d-dimensional smooth projective toric manifold PΣ associated with a fan Σ. The multiplicative structure of H ∗ ϕ (PΣ,C) depends on the choice of an element ϕ in the ordinary cohomology group H 2 (PΣ,C). There are many properties of quantum cohomology rings H ∗ ϕ (PΣ,C) which are supposed to be valid for quantum cohomology rings of Kähler manifolds.
Orbifold resolution by D-branes
- Nucl. Phys. B
, 1997
"... We study topological properties of the D-brane resolution of three-dimensional orbifold singularities, C3 /Γ, for finite abelian groups Γ. The D-brane vacuum moduli space is shown to fill out the background spacetime with Fayet–Iliopoulos parameters controlling the size of the blow-ups. This D-brane ..."
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We study topological properties of the D-brane resolution of three-dimensional orbifold singularities, C3 /Γ, for finite abelian groups Γ. The D-brane vacuum moduli space is shown to fill out the background spacetime with Fayet–Iliopoulos parameters controlling the size of the blow-ups. This D-brane vacuum moduli space can be classically described by a gauged linear sigma model, which is shown to be non-generic in a manner that projects out non-geometric regions in its phase diagram, as anticipated from a number of perspectives.
On the Hodge structure of projective hypersurfaces in toric varieties
- Duke Math. J
, 1994
"... The purpose of this paper is to explain one extension of the ideas of the Griffiths-Dolgachev-Steenbrink method for describing the Hodge theory of smooth (resp. quasismooth) hypersurfaces in complex projective spaces (resp. in weighted projective spaces). The main idea of this method is the represen ..."
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The purpose of this paper is to explain one extension of the ideas of the Griffiths-Dolgachev-Steenbrink method for describing the Hodge theory of smooth (resp. quasismooth) hypersurfaces in complex projective spaces (resp. in weighted projective spaces). The main idea of this method is the representation of the Hodge components H d−1−p,p (X) in the middle cohomology group of projective hypersurfaces X = {z ∈ P d: f(z) = 0} in P d = ProjC[z1,...,zd+1] using homogeneous components of the quotient of the polynomial ring C[z1,...,zd+1] by the ideal J(f) = 〈∂f/∂z1,...,∂f/∂zd+1〉. Basic references are [13, 14, 24, 29]. In this paper, we consider hypersurfaces X in compact d-dimensional toric varieties PΣ associated with complete rational polyhedral fan Σ of simplicial cones R d. According to the theory of toric varieties [12, 22, 9, 23], PΣ is defined by glueing together of affine toric varieties Aσ = SpecC[ˇσ ∩ Z d] (σ ∈ Σ) where ˇσ denotes the dual to σ cone. Weighted projective spaces are examples of toric varieties. M. Audin [1] first noticed that there exists another approach to the definition of the
