Linear Sigma Models With Strongly Coupled Phases -- One Parameter Models

Abstract

We systematically construct a class of two-dimensional $(2,2)$ supersymmetric gauged linear sigma models with phases in which a continuous subgroup of the gauge group is totally unbroken. We study some of their properties by employing a recently developed technique. The focus of the present work is on models with one Kähler parameter. The models include those corresponding to Calabi-Yau threefolds, extending three examples found earlier by a few more, as well as Calabi-Yau manifolds of other dimensions and non-Calabi-Yau manifolds. The construction leads to predictions of equivalences of D-brane categories, systematically extending earlier examples. There is another type of surprise. Two distinct superconformal field theories corresponding to Calabi-Yau threefolds with different Hodge numbers, $h^{2,1}=23$ versus $h^{2,1}=59$, have exactly the same quantum Kähler moduli space. The strong-weak duality plays a crucial rôle in confirming this, and also is useful in the actual computation of the metric on the moduli space.

84 pages; typos and simple errors corrected, computation of elliptic genus and topology added in appendix

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