BPS jumping loci are automorphic

DOI10.1007/S00220-018-3090-3MaRDI QIDQ1650153zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shamit Kachru, Arnav Tripathy

Publication date 2 July 2018

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.02706

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular and Shimura varieties (14G35) (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We show that BPS jumping loci -- loci in the moduli space of string compactifications where the number of BPS states jumps in an upper semi-continuous manner -- naturally appear as Fourier coefficients of (vector space-valued) automorphic forms. For the case of $T^2$ compactification, the jumping loci are governed by a modular form studied by Hirzebruch and Zagier, while the jumping loci in K3 compactification appear in a story developed by Oda and Kudla-Millson in arithmetic geometry. We also comment on some curious related automorphy in the physics of black hole attractors and flux vacua.

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