Notes on Gepner Construction

Abstract

In this note, we describe the Gepner construction purely as orbifold (rather than a beta-prescription or orbifold-like process). This is done by distinguishing orbifolding by a chiral symmetry from that by a left-right diagonal symmetry, and also by exploiting an extra degree of freedom available in orbifolds of Type 0 SCFTs. We also describe by using the Arf theory how the extra freedom in Type 0 SCFT orbifolds in general (not just in the Gepner construction) should be implemented in higher genus amplitudes. This note also determines when a combinatorial data set of a Gepner construction has a mirror Gepner construction, and also provides two thinking frameworks to determine the SCFT vertex operators of the Gepner model SCFTs with phase ambiguity and branch cuts under control.