wpa on mirror symmetry ...

Mirror symmetry, in a class of models of toric varieties with zero first Chern class Calabi-Yau manifolds and positive first Chern class (Fano varieties) was proven by Kentaro Hori and Cumrun Vafa.[4] Their approach is as follows. A sigma model whose target space is a toric variety may be described by an abelian gauge theory with charged chiral multiplets. Mirror symmetry then replaces these charged chiral multiplets with uncharged twisted chiral multiplets whose vacuum expectation values are FI terms. Instantons in the dual theory are now vortices whose action is given by the exponential of the FI term. These vortices each have precisely 2 fermion zeromodes, and so the sole correction to the superpotential is given by a single vortex. The nonperturbative corrections to the dual superpotential may then be found by simply summing the exponentials of the FI terms. Therefore mirror symmetry allows one to find the full nonperturbative solutions to the theory.

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