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A pair of Calabi-Yau manifolds as an exactly soluble superconformal theory. (English) Zbl 1098.32506
Summary: We compute the prepotentials and the geometry of the moduli spaces for a Calabi-Yau manifold and its mirror. In this way we obtain all the sigma model corrections to the Yukawa couplings and moduli space metric for the original manifold. The moduli space is found to be subject to the action of a modular group which, among other operations, exchanges large and small values of the radius, though the action on the radius is not as simple as $R \to 1/R$. It is also shown that the quantum corrections to the coupling decompose into a sum over instanton contributions and moreover that this sum converges. In particular there are no `sub-instanton’ corrections. This sum over instantons points to a deep connection between the modular group and the rational curves of the Calabi-Yau manifold. The burden of the present work is that a mirror pair of Calabi-Yau manifolds is an exactly soluble superconformal theory, at least as far as the massless sector is concerned. Mirror pairs are also more general than exactly soluble models that have hitherto been discussed since we solve the theory for all points of the moduli space.

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 32G20 Period matrices, variation of Hodge structure; degenerations 14J30 Algebraic threefolds 32G05 Deformations of complex structures 32G81 Applications of deformations of analytic structures to physics 81T30 String and superstring theories 81T40 Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. 14J15 Analytic moduli, classification (surfaces)
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