TY - JOUR
T1 - Conifold transitions and mirror symmetry for Calabi-Yau complete intersections in Grassmannians
AU - Batyrev, Victor V.
AU - Ciocan-Fontanine, Ionuţ
AU - Kim, Bumsig
AU - Van Straten, Duco
PY - 1998/3/23
Y1 - 1998/3/23
N2 - In this paper we show that conifold transitions between Calabi-Yau 3-folds can be used for the construction of mirror manifolds and for the computation of the instanton numbers of rational curves on complete intersection Calabi-Yau 3-folds in Grassmannians. Using a natural degeneration of Grassmannians G(k, n) to some Gorenstein toric Fano varieties P(k, n) with conifolds singularities which was recently described by Sturmfels, we suggest an explicit mirror construction for Calabi-Yau complete intersections X ⊂ G(k, n) of arbitrary dimension. Our mirror construction is consistent with the formula for the Lax operator conjectured by Eguchi, Hori and Xiong for gravitational quantum cohomology of Grassmannians.
AB - In this paper we show that conifold transitions between Calabi-Yau 3-folds can be used for the construction of mirror manifolds and for the computation of the instanton numbers of rational curves on complete intersection Calabi-Yau 3-folds in Grassmannians. Using a natural degeneration of Grassmannians G(k, n) to some Gorenstein toric Fano varieties P(k, n) with conifolds singularities which was recently described by Sturmfels, we suggest an explicit mirror construction for Calabi-Yau complete intersections X ⊂ G(k, n) of arbitrary dimension. Our mirror construction is consistent with the formula for the Lax operator conjectured by Eguchi, Hori and Xiong for gravitational quantum cohomology of Grassmannians.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00020-0
DO - 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00020-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032559727
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 514
SP - 640
EP - 666
JO - Nuclear Physics B
JF - Nuclear Physics B
IS - 3
ER -