Mirror Symmetry as a Poisson-Lie T-Duality

The goal of this paper is to make the vertex operator algebra approach to mirror symmetry accessible to algebraic geometers. Compared to better-known approaches using moduli spaces of stable maps and special Lagrangian fibrations, this approach follows more closely the original line of thinking that lead to the discovery of mirror symmetry by physicists. The ultimate goal of the vertex algebra approach is to give precise mathematical definitions of N=(2,2) superconformal fiel...

I construct classical superextensions of the Virasoro algebra by employing the Ward identities of a linearly realized subalgebra. For the $N=4$ superconformal algebra, this subalgebra is generated by the $N=2$ $U(1)$ supercurrent and a spin~0 $N=2$ superfield. I show that this structure can be extended to an $N=4$ super $W_3$ algebra, and give the complete form of this algebra.

We classify all possible occurrences of Kazama-Suzuki duality between the $N=2$ superconformal algebra $L^{N=2}_c$ and the subregular algebra $\mathcal{W}$-algebra $\mathcal{W}_{k}(sl_4, f_{sub})$. We establish a new Kazama-Suzuki duality between the subregular $\mathcal{W}$-algebra $\mathcal{W}^k(sl_4, f_{\text{sub}})$ and the the $N = 2$ superconformal algebra $L^{N=2}_{c}$ for $c=-15$. As a consequence of duality, we classify the irreducible $\mathcal{W}_{k=-1}(sl_4, f_{\t...

We present a new supersymmetric integrable model: the $N=2$ superconformal affine Liouville theory. It interpolates between the $N=2$ super Liouville and $N=2$ super sine-Gordon theories and possesses a Lax representation on the complex affine Kac-Moody superalgebra ${\hat {sl(2| 2)^{(1)}}}$. We show that the higher spin $W_{1+\infty}$-type symmetry algebra of ordinary conformal affine Liouville theory extends to a $N=2\; W_{1/2 + \infty}$-type superalgebra.

We investigate $N=2$ extended superconformal symmetry, using the half-twisted Landau-Ginzburg models. The first example is the $D_{2n+2}$ -type minimal model. It has been conjectured that this model has a spin $n$ super $W$ current. We checked this by the direct computations of the BRS cohomology class up to $n=4$. We observe for $n\le 3$ the super W currents generate the ring isomorphic to the chiral ring of the model with respect to the classical product. We thus conjecture...

We review some facts about various T-dualities and sigma models on group manifolds, with particular emphasis on supersymmetry. We point out some of the problems in reconciling Poisson-Lie duality with the bi-hermitean geometry of N=2 supersymmetric sigma models. A couple of examples of supersymmetric models admitting Poisson-Lie duality are included.

We present a new and asymmetric N=4 superconformal algebra for arbitrary central charge, thus completing our recent work on its classical analogue with vanishing central charge. Besides the Virasoro generator and 4 supercurrents, the algebra consists of an internal SL(2) \otimes U(1) Kac-Moody algebra in addition to two spin 1/2 fermions and a bosonic scalar. The algebra is shown to be invariant under a linear twist of the generators, except for a unique value of the continuo...

In order to study quantum aspects of $\s$-models related by Poisson--Lie T-duality, we construct three- and two-dimensional models that correspond, in one of the dual faces, to deformations of $S^3$ and $S^2$. Their classical canonical equivalence is demonstrated by means of a generating functional, which we explicitly compute. We examine how they behave under the renormalization group and show that dually related models have the same 1-loop beta functions for the coupling an...

We study the canonical Poisson structure on the loop space of the super-double-twisted-torus and its quantization. As a consequence we obtain a rigorous construction of mirror symmetry as an intertwiner of the N=2 super-conformal structures on the super-symmetric sigma-models on the Kodaira-Thurston nilmanifold and a gerby torus of complex dimension 2. As an application we are able to identify global moduli of equivariant generalized complex structures on these target spaces ...

We propose an Abelian mirror dual for the $\mathcal{N}=2$ SQCD$_3$ that we obtain as real mass deformation of known $\mathcal{N}=4$ mirror pairs. We match the superconformal index and the $\mathbf{S}^3_b$ partition function, discuss the agreement of the moduli spaces, and provide a map of the gauge invariant operators and the global symmetries as evidence of this duality.