E-strings and N=4 topological Yang-Mills theories

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00426-XzbMATH Open0951.81025arXivhep-th/9802168MaRDI QIDQ1570551FDOQ1570551

Dennis D. Nemeschansky, Cumrun Vafa, Nicholas P. Warner, J. A. Minahan

Publication date: 11 July 2000

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

Abstract: We study certain properties of six-dimensional tensionless E-strings (arising from zero size $E_8$ instantons). In particular we show that $n$ E-strings form a bound string which carries an $E_8$ level $n$ current algebra as well as a left-over conformal system with $c=12n-4-248novern+30$, whose characters can be computed. Moreover we show that the characters of the $n$-string bound state are captured by N=4 U(n) topological Yang-Mills theory on $halfK3$. This relation not only illuminates certain aspects of E-strings but can also be used to shed light on the properties of N=4 topological Yang-Mills theories on manifolds with $b_2^{+}=1$. In particular the E-string partition functions, which can be computed using local mirror symmetry on a Calabi-Yau three-fold, give the Euler characteristics of the Yang-Mills instanton moduli space on $halfK3$. Moreover, the partition functions are determined by a gap condition combined with a simple recurrence relation which has its origins in a holomorphic anomaly that has been conjectured to exist for N=4 topological Yang-Mills on manifolds with $b_2^{+}=1$ and is also related to the holomorphic anomaly for higher genus topological strings on Calabi-Yau threefolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9802168

zbMATH Keywords

local mirror symmetryCalabi-Yau threefoldEuler characteristicsE-string partition functionstensionless E-stringsYang-Mills instanton moduli space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27) Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81)

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