Hybrid conformal field theories

Understand

We describe a class of (2,2) superconformal field theories obtained by fibering a Landau-Ginzburg orbifold CFT over a compact Kaehler base manifold.

• While such models are naturally obtained as phases in a gauged linear sigma model, our construction is independent of such an embedding.
• We discuss the general properties of such theories and present a technique to study the massless spectrum of the associated heterotic compactification.
• We test the validity of our method by applying it to hybrid phases of linear models and comparing spectra among the phases.