Non-critical strings, del Pezzo singularities and Seiberg-Witten curves

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00312-XzbMATH Open0934.81036arXivhep-th/9612085OpenAlexW3100733225WikidataQ125754391 ScholiaQ125754391MaRDI QIDQ1362695FDOQ1362695

Authors: W. Lerche, Peter Mayr, Nicholas P. Warner 

Publication date: 6 August 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study limits of four-dimensional type II Calabi-Yau compactifications with vanishing four-cycle singularities, which are dual to $I{T}^2$ compactifications of the six-dimensional non-critical string with $E_8$ symmetry. We define proper subsectors of the full string theory, which can be consistently decoupled. In this way we obtain rigid effective theories that have an intrinsically stringy BPS spectrum. Geometrically the moduli spaces correspond to special geometry of certain non-compact Calabi-Yau spaces of an intriguing form. An equivalent description can be given in terms of Seiberg-Witten curves, given by the elliptic simple singularities together with a peculiar choice of meromorphic differentials. We speculate that the moduli spaces describe non-perturbative non-critical string theories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9612085

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zbMATH Keywords

dualitymeromorphic differentialsmoduli space geometryBogomolnyi Prasad Sommerfield spectrum\(E_8\) symmetry4D type II Calabi-Yau compactificationfull string theory subsectorsnonperturbative description

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81)

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