Perturbative BPS algebras in superstring theory

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00360-XzbMATH Open0935.81038arXivhep-th/9702197MaRDI QIDQ1362712FDOQ1362712

Authors: C. D. D. Neumann 

Publication date: 6 August 1997

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

Abstract: This paper investigates the algebraic structure that exists on perturbative BPS-states in the superstring, compactified on the product of a circle and a Calabi-Yau fourfold. This structure was defined in a recent article by Harvey and Moore. It shown that for a toroidal compactification this algebra is related to a generalized Kac-Moody algebra. The BPS-algebra itself is not a Lie-algebra. However, it turns out to be possible to construct a Lie-algebra with the same graded dimensions, in terms of a half-twisted model. The dimensions of these algebras are related to the elliptic genus of the transverse part of the string algebra. Finally, the construction is applied to an orbifold compactification of the superstring.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702197

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zbMATH Keywords

Lie algebraKac-Moody algebraalgebraic structureBogomolnyi-Prasad-Sommerfield statesCalabi-Yau fourfoldtransverse string algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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