Elliptic genus of E-strings

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Publication:1705973

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2017)098zbMATH Open1382.83107arXiv1411.2324OpenAlexW1730236954MaRDI QIDQ1705973FDOQ1705973

Seok Kim, Jaemo Park, Kimyeong Lee, Joonho Kim, Cumrun Vafa

Publication date: 19 March 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a family of 2d N=(0,4) gauge theories which describes at low energy the dynamics of E-strings, the M2-branes suspended between a pair of M5 and M9 branes. The gauge theory is engineered using a duality with type IIA theory, leading to the D2-branes suspended between an NS5-brane and 8 D8-branes on an O8-plane. We compute the elliptic genus of this family of theories, and find agreement with the known results for single and two E-strings. The partition function can in principle be computed for arbitrary number of E-strings, and we compute them explicitly for low numbers. We test our predictions against the partially known results from topological strings, as well as from the instanton calculus of 5d Sp(1) gauge theory. Given the relation to topological strings, our computation provides the all genus partition function of the refined topological strings on the canonical bundle over 1/2 K3.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2324





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