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(0,2) Landau-Ginzburg Models and Residues

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-07 v3 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

We study the topological heterotic ring in (0,2) Landau-Ginzburg models without a (2,2) locus. The ring elements correspond to elements of the Koszul cohomology groups associated to a zero-dimensional ideal in a polynomial ring, and the computation of half-twisted genus zero correlators reduces to a map from the first non-trivial Koszul cohomology group to complex numbers. This map is a generalization of the local Grothendieck residue. The results may be applied to computations of Yukawa couplings in a heterotic compactification at a Landau-Ginzburg point.

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@article{arxiv.0902.3908,
  title  = {(0,2) Landau-Ginzburg Models and Residues},
  author = {Ilarion V. Melnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3908},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

25 pages; typos fixed; published version