Periods for Calabi-Yau and Landau-Ginzburg vacua

Per Berglund, Philip Candelas, Xenia de la Ossa, Anamaría Font, Tristan Hübsch, Dubravka Jančić, Fernando Quevedo

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Abstract

The complete structure of the moduli space of Calabi-Yau manifolds and the associated Landau-Ginzburg theories, and hence also of the corresponding low-energy effective theory that results from (2, 2) superstring compactification, may be determined in terms of certain holomorphic functions called periods. These periods are shown to be readily calculable for a great many such models. We illustrate this by computing the periods explicitly for a number of classes of Calabi-Yau manifolds. We also point out that it is possible to read off from the periods certain important information relating to the mirror manifolds.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)352-403
Number of pages52
JournalNuclear Physics, Section B
Volume419
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - May 16 1994

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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