Strange Duality Between the Quadrangle Complete Intersection Singularities

There is a strange duality between the quadrangle isolated complete intersection singularities discovered by the first author and Wall. We derive this duality from a variation of the Berglund–Hübsch transposition of invertible polynomials introduced in our previous work about the strange duality between hypersurface and complete intersection singularities using matrix factorizations of size two.

Landau–Ginzburg/Calabi–Yau Correspondence for a Complete Intersection via Matrix Factorizations

By generalizing the Landau–Ginzburg/Calabi–Yau correspondence for hypersurfaces, we can relate a Calabi–Yau complete intersection to a hybrid Landau–Ginzburg model: a family of isolated singularities fibered over a projective line. In recent years Fan, Jarvis, and Ruan have defined quantum invariants for singularities of this type, and Clader and Clader–Ross have provided an equivalence between these invariants and Gromov–Witten invariants of complete intersections, in this way quantum cohomology yields an identification of the cohomology groups of the Calabi–Yau and of the hybrid Landau–Ginzburg model. It is not clear how to relate this to the known isomorphism descending from derived equivalences (due to Segal and Shipman, and Orlov and Isik). We answer this question for Calabi–Yau complete intersections of two cubics.

Topological defects and SUSY RG flow

We study the effect of bulk perturbations of N=(2) superconformal minimal models on topological defects. In particular, symmetries and more general topological defects which survive the flow to the IR are identified. Our method is to consider the topological subsector and make use of the Landau-Ginzburg formulation to describe RG flows and topological defects in terms of matrix factorizations.