Conformal invariance of (0, 2) sigma models on Calabi-Yau manifolds

Abstract

Abstract Long ago, Nemeschansky and Sen demonstrated that the Ricci-flat metric on a Calabi-Yau manifold could be corrected, order by order in perturbation theory, to produce a conformally invariant (2, 2) nonlinear sigma model. Here we extend this result to (0, 2) sigma models for stable holomorphic vector bundles over Calabi-Yaus.

Keywords

• Conformal Field Models in String Theory
• Superstrings and Heterotic Strings
• Renormalization Group