Special geometry and automorphic forms

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00396-9MaRDI QIDQ1367552zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Per Berglund, Måns Henningson, Niclas Wyllard

Publication date 24 September 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703195

zbMATH Keywords

singularity structureheterotic string compactificationmoduli space geometrycovariant transformsenhanced gauge symmetryK3 fibered Calabi Yau threefoldsnonperturbative levelrational quadratic divisorsvector multiplet moduli space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Other groups and their modular and automorphic forms (several variables) (11F55)

Abstract: We consider special geometry of the vector multiplet moduli space in compactifications of the heterotic string on $K3imes{T}^2$ or the type IIA string on $K3$-fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds. In particular, we construct a modified dilaton that is invariant under $SO(2,n;Z)$ T-duality transformations at the non-perturbative level and regular everywhere on the moduli space. The invariant dilaton, together with a set of other coordinates that transform covariantly under $SO(2,n;Z)$, parameterize the moduli space. The construction involves a meromorphic automorphic function of $SO(2,n;Z)$, that also depends on the invariant dilaton. In the weak coupling limit, the divisor of this automorphic form is an integer linear combination of the rational quadratic divisors where the gauge symmetry is enhanced classically. We also show how the non-perturbative prepotential can be expressed in terms of meromorphic automorphic forms, by expanding a T-duality invariant quantity both in terms of the standard special coordinates and in terms of the invariant dilaton and the covariant coordinates.

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