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We are considering the class of heterotic \( \mathcal{N}=\left(2,2\right) \) Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds with 9 fields corresponding to A 91 Gepner models. We classify all of its Abelian discrete quotients and obtain 152 inequivalent models closed under mirror symmetry with \( \mathcal{N}=1 \), 2 and 4 supersymmetry in 4D. We compute the full massless matter spectrum at the Fermat locus and find a universal relation satisfied by all models. In addition we give prescriptions of how to compute all quantum numbers of the 4D states including their discrete R-symmetries. Using mirror symmetry of rigid geometries we describe orbifold and smooth Calabi-Yau phases as deformations away from the Landau-Ginzburg Fermat locus in two explicit examples. We match the non-Fermat deformations to the 4D Higgs mechanism and study the conservation of R-symmetries. The first example is a \( {\mathrm{\mathbb{Z}}}_3 \) orbifold on an E6 lattice where the R-symmetry is preserved. Due to a permutation symmetry of blow-up and torus Kähler parameters the R-symmetry stays conserved also in the smooth Calabi-Yau phase. In the second example the R-symmetry gets broken once we deform to the geometric \( {\mathrm{\mathbb{Z}}}_3\times {\mathrm{\mathbb{Z}}}_{3,\mathrm{free}} \) orbifold regime.
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Blaszczyk, M., Oehlmann, PK. Tracing symmetries and their breakdown through phases of heterotic (2,2) compactifications. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 68 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2016)068
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