Counting higher genus curves in a Calabi-Yau manifold

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00847-5zbMATH Open0951.14037arXivhep-th/9808131OpenAlexW2005701066MaRDI QIDQ1572002FDOQ1572002

M. Mariño, G. W. Moore

Publication date: 12 July 2000

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

Abstract: We explicitly evaluate the low energy coupling $F_g$ in a $d=4,mathcalN=2$ compactification of the heterotic string. The holomorphic piece of this expression provides the information not encoded in the holomorphic anomaly equations, and we find that it is given by an elementary polylogarithm with index $3-2g$, thus generalizing in a natural way the known results for $g=0,1$. The heterotic model has a dual Calabi-Yau compactification of the type II string. We compare the answer with the general form expected from curve-counting formulae and find good agreement. As a corollary of this comparison we predict some numbers of higher genus curves in a specific Calabi-Yau, and extract some intersection numbers on the moduli space of genus $g$ Riemann surfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9808131

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zbMATH Keywords

intersection numbersheterotic stringCalabi-Yau compactificationcurve-counting formulaelow energy coupling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10) Families, moduli of curves (analytic) (14H15) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81)

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