Algebras, BPS states, and strings

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00605-2zbMATH Open0912.53056arXivhep-th/9510182OpenAlexW2032814589MaRDI QIDQ1909488FDOQ1909488

Authors: Jeffrey Harvey, G. W. Moore 

Publication date: 13 March 1996

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

Abstract: We clarify the role played by BPS states in the calculation of threshold corrections of D=4, N=2 heterotic string compactifications. We evaluate these corrections for some classes of compactifications and show that they are sums of logarithmic functions over the positive roots of generalized Kac-Moody algebras. Moreover, a certain limit of the formulae suggests a reformulation of heterotic string in terms of a gauge theory based on hyperbolic algebras such as $E_{10}$. We define a generalized Kac-Moody Lie superalgebra associated to the BPS states. Finally we discuss the relation of our results with string duality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9510182

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge theorystring dualityBPS stateshyperbolic algebrasgeneralized Kac Moody Lie superalgebrathreshold corrections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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