Squashed toric sigma models and mock modular forms
Abstract
We study a class of two-dimensional N=(2,2) sigma models called squashed toric sigma models, using their Gauged Linear Sigma Models (GLSM) description. These models are obtained by gauging the global U(1) symmetries of toric GLSMs and introducing a set of corresponding compensator superfields. The geometry of the resulting vacuum manifold is a deformation of the corresponding toric manifold in which the torus fibration maintains a constant size in the interior of the manifold, thus producing a neck-like region. We compute the elliptic genus of these models, using localization, in the case when the unsquashed vacuum manifolds obey the Calabi-Yau condition. The elliptic genera have a non-holomorphic dependence on the modular parameter coming from the continuum produced by the neck. In the simplest case corresponding to squashed the elliptic genus is a mixed mock Jacobi form which coincides with the elliptic genus of the N=(2,2) SL(2,R)/U(1) cigar coset.
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@article{arxiv.1705.00649,
title = {Squashed toric sigma models and mock modular forms},
author = {Rajesh Kumar Gupta and Sameer Murthy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00649},
year = {2018}
}
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35 pages, 4 figures