Old issues and linear sigma models
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-07-12 v3
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1103.1322,
title = {Old issues and linear sigma models},
author = {Jock McOrist and Ilarion V. Melnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.1322},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
31 pages, xy-pic diagrams; v2: some additional comments, typos corrected, improved discussion in appendix; v3: atmp format