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arxiv: 1705.00649 · v1 · pith:QLLGS3FVnew · submitted 2017-05-01 · ✦ hep-th · math.NT

Squashed toric sigma models and mock modular forms

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keywords modelsellipticsigmatoriccorrespondinggenusmanifoldsquashed
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We study a class of two-dimensional N=(2,2) sigma models called squashed toric sigma models, using their Gauged Linear Sigma Models (GLSM) description. These models are obtained by gauging the global U(1) symmetries of toric GLSMs and introducing a set of corresponding compensator superfields. The geometry of the resulting vacuum manifold is a deformation of the corresponding toric manifold in which the torus fibration maintains a constant size in the interior of the manifold, thus producing a neck-like region. We compute the elliptic genus of these models, using localization, in the case when the unsquashed vacuum manifolds obey the Calabi-Yau condition. The elliptic genera have a non-holomorphic dependence on the modular parameter $\tau$ coming from the continuum produced by the neck. In the simplest case corresponding to squashed $\mathbb{C}/\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ the elliptic genus is a mixed mock Jacobi form which coincides with the elliptic genus of the N=(2,2) SL(2,R)/U(1) cigar coset.

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