Beyond Algebraic Superstring Compactification: Part II

Abstract

The most impressively prolific exploration of superstring models (aiming for our physical reality) has been focused on worldsheet-supersymmetric gauged linear sigma models and the closely associated complex-algebraic toric geometry. Mirror duality relates this to the inherently real symplectic geometry of Calabi-Yau factors in spacetime, implying a need for a more general, heterotic framework of analysis. In turn, a closer look at possible deformations even amongst the complex-algebraic complete intersections and toric geometry models themselves indicates an a priori non-algebraic type of generalization that however perfectly aligns with requirements of mirror duality.

published version: 44 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables, with footnotes (and references to them) restored