Heterotic sigma models on T^8 and the Borcherds automorphic form _12

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2017)121MaRDI QIDQ1709340zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sarah M. Harrison, Shamit Kachru, Natalie Paquette, Roberto Volpato, Max Zimet

Publication date 27 March 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00707

zbMATH Keywords

automorphic formsdenominator functiongeneralized Kac-Moody algebrareflection groupsuperstring vacuasuperstrings and heterotic stringsunimodular lattices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphic forms, one variable (11F12) Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups (11F22) Jacobi forms (11F50) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We consider the spectrum of BPS states of the heterotic sigma model with $(0,8)$ supersymmetry and $T^8$ target, as well as its second-quantized counterpart. We show that the counting function for such states is intimately related to Borcherds' automorphic form $Ph{i}_{12}$, a modular form which exhibits automorphy for $O(2,26;mathbbZ)$. We comment on possible implications for Umbral moonshine and theories of AdS${}_3$ gravity.

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