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We investigate a class of (2,2) supersymmetric string vacua which may be represented as Landau-Ginzburg theories with a quasihomogeneous potential which has an isolated singularity at the origin. There are at least three thousand distinct models in this class. All vacua of this type lead to Euler numbers which lie in the range −960 ≤ χ ≤ 960. The Euler characteristics do not pair up completely hence the space of Landau-Ginzburg ground states is not mirror symmetric even though it exhibits a high degree of symmetry. We discuss in some detail the relation between Landau-Ginzburg models and Calabi-Yau manifolds and describe a subtlety regarding Landau-Ginzburg potentials with an arbitrary number of fields. We also show that the use of topological identities makes it possible to relate Landau-Ginzburg theories to types of Calabi-Yau manifolds for which the usual Landau-Ginzburg framework does not apply.

We generalize the previously established (0,2) triality of exactly solvable models, LandauGinzburg theories and Calabi-Yau manifolds to a number of different classes of (0,2) compactifications derived from (2,2) vacua. For the resulting models we show that the known (2,2) mirror constructions induce mirror symmetry in the (0,2) context. 9/961