Informal Pizza Seminars

Deformed Chiral Rings of Toric Varieties

Josh Guffin

UIUC

I will discuss the chiral ring of (0,2) non-linear sigma models with toric variety targets which arise as deformations of (2,2) theories. Using an algorithm to compute arbitrary instanton corrections to genus-zero correlators, we can deduce the chiral ring. Finally, I will discuss the utility of these rings in checking (0,2) mirror symmetry results.