LANDAU-GINZBURG ORBIFOLDS, MIRROR SYMMETRY AND THE ELLIPTIC GENUS

Academic Article

Abstract

  • We compute the elliptic genus for arbitrary two dimensional $N=2$ Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds. This is used to search for possible mirror pairs of such models. We show that if two Landau-Ginzburg models are conjugate to each other in a certain sense, then to every orbifold of the first theory corresponds an orbifold of the second theory with the same elliptic genus (up to a sign) and with the roles of the chiral and anti-chiral rings interchanged. These orbifolds thus constitute a possible mirror pair. Furthermore, new pairs of conjugate models may be obtained by taking the product of old ones. We also give a sufficient (and possibly necessary) condition for two models to be conjugate, and show that it is satisfied by the mirror pairs proposed by one of the authors and~H\"ubsch.
  • Authors

  • Berglund, Per
  • HENNINGSON, M
  • Status

    Publication Date

  • January 9, 1995
  • Published In

  • Nuclear Physics B  Journal
  • Keywords

  • hep-th
  • Digital Object Identifier (doi)

    Start Page

  • 311
  • End Page

  • 332
  • Volume

  • 433
  • Issue

  • 2