Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Volume 16 (2012)

Number 1

Old issues and linear sigma models

Pages: 251 – 288

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/ATMP.2012.v16.n1.a6

Authors

Jock McOrist (DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Ilarion V. Melnikov (Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm, Germany)

Abstract

Using mirror symmetry, we resolve an old puzzle in the linear sigma model description of the spacetime Higgs mechanism in a heterotic string compactification with (2,2) worldsheet supersymmetry. The resolution has a nice spacetime interpretation via the normalization of physical fields and suggests that with a little care deformations of the linear sigma model can describe heterotic Higgs branches.

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Published 17 January 2013