Towards Hodge Theoretic Characterizations of 2d Rational SCFTs: II

TL;DR

This paper refines the Hodge-theoretic criteria for classifying 2D rational superconformal field theories with Ricci-flat Kähler targets, establishing necessary and sufficient conditions for T^4 targets and proposing extensions to general cases.

Contribution

It identifies the additional condition needed to make Gukov and Vafa's criteria both necessary and sufficient for T^4 targets and suggests a broader framework for Ricci-flat Kähler spaces.

Findings

Added a key condition to Gukov--Vafa criteria for T^4 targets

Established necessary and sufficient conditions for rationality

Proposed a generalized approach for Ricci-flat Kähler targets

Abstract

A characterization of rational superconformal field theories (SCFTs) on 1+1 dimensions with Ricci-flat Kahler targets was proposed by S. Gukov and C. Vafa in terms of the Hodge structure of the target space. The article [arXiv:2205.10299] refined this idea and extracted a set of necessary conditions for a $T^4$-target N=(1,1) SCFT to be rational; only a partial effort was made, however, to study whether it also constitutes a sufficient condition. It turns out that the set of conditions in [arXiv:2205.10299] is not sufficient, and that it becomes a set of necessary and sufficient conditions by adding one more condition in the case of $T^4$. The Strominger--Yau--Zaslow fibration in the mirror correspondence plays an essential role there. At the end, we also propose a refined version of Gukov--Vafa's idea for general Ricci-flat Kahler target spaces.