dual polyhedra and mirror symmetry for calabi–yau hypersurfaces in toric varieties（双重多面体和镜面对称的比丘超曲面环面的品种）.pdf

Dual Polyhedra and Mirror Symmetry for Calabi-Yau Hypersurfaces in Toric Varieties 3 9 Victor V. Batyrev 9 1 Universit¨at-GH-Essen, Fachbereich 6, Mathematik t Universit¨atsstr. 3, 45141 Essen c O Federal Republic of Germany 5 e-mail: matf∅∅@vm.hrz.uni-essen.de 1 v 3 0 0 0 1 Abstract 3 9 We consider families F (∆) consisting of complex (n − 1)-dimensional projective / m algebraic compactifications of ∆-regular affine hypersurfaces Zf defined by Laurent o polynomials f with a fixed n-dimensional Newton polyhedron ∆ in n-dimensional e ∗ n g algebraic torus T = (C ) . If the family F (∆) defined by a Newton polyhedron ∆ - consists of (n − 1)-dimensional Calabi-Yau varieties then the dual, or polar, polyhe- g ∗ ∗ l dron ∆ in the dual space defines another family F (∆ ) of Calabi-Yau varieties, so a : that we obtain the remarkable duality between two different families of Calabi-Yau v varieties. It is shown that the properties of this duality coincide with the properties i X of Mirror Symmetry discovered by physicists for Calabi-Yau 3-folds. Our method r allows to construct many new examples of Calabi-Yau 3-folds and new candidates for a their mirrors which were previously unknown for physicists. We conjecture that there exists an isomorphism between two conformal field the- ∗