Warped string compactification via singular Calabi-Yau conformal field theory

We construct spacetime supersymmetric, modular invariant partition functions of strings on the conifold-type singularities which include contributions from the discrete-series representations of SL(2,R). The discrete spectrum is automatically consistent with the GSO projection in the continuous sector, and contains massless matter fields localized on a four-dimensional submanifold at the tip of a cigar. In particular, they are in the 27⊕1 of E6 for the E8×E8 heterotic string. We speculate about a possible realization of local E6 GUT by using this framework.