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A McKay-Like Correspondence for (0,2)-Deformations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-03-06 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We present a local computation of deformations of the tangent bundle for a resolved orbifold singularity C^d/G. These correspond to (0,2)-deformations of (2,2)-theories. A McKay-like correspondence is found predicting the dimension of the space of first-order deformations from simple calculations involving the group. This is confirmed in two dimensions using the Kronheimer-Nakajima quiver construction. In higher dimensions such a computation is subject to nontrivial worldsheet instanton corrections and some examples are given where this happens. However, we conjecture that the special crepant resolution given by the G-Hilbert scheme is never subject to such corrections, and show this is true in an infinite number of cases. Amusingly, for three-dimensional examples where G is abelian, the moduli space is associated to a quiver given by the toric fan of the blow-up. It is shown that an orbifold of the form C^3/Z7 has a nontrivial superpotential and thus an obstructed moduli space.

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@article{arxiv.1110.2524,
  title  = {A McKay-Like Correspondence for (0,2)-Deformations},
  author = {Paul S. Aspinwall},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.2524},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

30 pages, minor numerical typos fixed

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