Enhanced gauge symmetry in type II and F-theory compactifications: Dynkin diagrams from polyhedra

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00477-XzbMATH Open0925.14021arXivhep-th/9704129MaRDI QIDQ1371604FDOQ1371604

Authors: Eugene Perevalov, Harald Skarke 

Publication date: 29 October 1997

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

Abstract: We explain the observation by Candelas and Font that the Dynkin diagrams of nonabelian gauge groups occurring in type IIA and F-theory can be read off from the polyhedron $Delt{a}^{*}$ that provides the toric description of the Calabi-Yau manifold used for compacification. We show how the intersection pattern of toric divisors corresponding to the degeneration of elliptic fibers follows the ADE classification of singularities and the Kodaira classification of degenerations. We treat in detail the cases of elliptic K3 surfaces and K3 fibered threefolds where the fiber is again elliptic. We also explain how even the occurrence of monodromy and non-simply laced groups in the latter case is visible in the toric picture. These methods also work in the fourfold case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9704129

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zbMATH Keywords

toric geometrymonodromynonabelian gauge groupsintersection patternADE singularity classificationK3 fibered threefoldsKodaira degeneration classificationtoric Calabi Yau manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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