Computing the complete massless spectrum of a Landau-Ginzburg orbifold

Shamit Kachru, Edward Witten

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Abstract

We develop techniques to compute the complete massless spectrum in heterotic string compactification on N = 2 supersymmetric Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds. This includes not just the familiar charged fields, but also the gauge singlets. The number of gauge singlets can vary in the moduli space of a given compactification and can differ from what it would be in the large radius limit of the corresponding Calabi-Yau. Comparison with exactly soluble Gepner models provides a confirmation of our results at Gepner points. Our methods carry over straightforwardly to (0, 2) Landau-Ginzburg models.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)637-666
Number of pages30
JournalNuclear Physics, Section B
Volume407
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 25 1993
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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