Construction and Couplings of Mirror Manifolds

May 8, 1990
8 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 241 (1990) 373-380
  • Published: 1990
Report number:
  • OUTP-90-05-P

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We present an analysis of the conjectured existence of Calabi-Yau “mirror manifolds” for the case where the starting manifold is Y 4,5 . We construct mirror pairs with equal but opposite values for the Euler characteristic and the Hodge numbers h 2,1 and h 1,1 interchanged. In one particular example we show that the couplings of (1,1)-forms equal the couplings of (2,1)-forms in the mirror manifold, provided that a suitable limit is taken of the complex structure which corresponds to the large-radius limit appropriate for the mirror manifold. This leads to a determination, via deformation theory, of corrections to the topologically determined couplings of the (1,1)-forms.
  • space-time: Calabi-Yau
  • space-time: mirror
  • string model: supersymmetry
  • field theory: conformal
  • dimension: 4
  • coupling: topological
  • topological: coupling
  • correction
  • compactification
  • group theory