CHL Calabi-Yau threefolds: curve counting, Mathieu moonshine and Siegel modular forms

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2020.V14.N4.A3zbMATH Open1479.14071arXiv1811.06102OpenAlexW3091748854MaRDI QIDQ2214178FDOQ2214178

Georg Oberdieck, Jim Bryan

Publication date: 7 December 2020

Published in: Communications in Number Theory and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A CHL model is the quotient of $mathrmK3imesE$ by an order $N$ automorphism which acts symplectically on the K3 surface and acts by shifting by an $N$-torsion point on the elliptic curve $E$. We conjecture that the primitive Donaldson-Thomas partition function of elliptic CHL models is a Siegel modular form, namely the Borcherds lift of the corresponding twisted-twined elliptic genera which appear in Mathieu moonshine. The conjecture matches predictions of string theory by David, Jatkar and Sen. We use the topological vertex to prove several base cases of the conjecture. Via a degeneration to $mathrmK3imesmathbb{P}^1$ we also express the DT partition functions as a twisted trace of an operator on Fock space. This yields further computational evidence. An extension of the conjecture to non-geometric CHL models is discussed. We consider CHL models of order $N=2$ in detail. We conjecture a formula for the Donaldson-Thomas invariants of all order two CHL models in all curve classes. The conjecture is formulated in terms of two Siegel modular forms. One of them, a Siegel form for the Iwahori subgroup, has to our knowledge not yet appeared in physics. This discrepancy is discussed in an appendix with Sheldon Katz.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06102

zbMATH Keywords

\(K3\) surfacesSiegel modular formsmoonshineDonaldson-Thomas theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Siegel modular groups; Siegel and Hilbert-Siegel modular and automorphic forms (11F46)

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• Curve counting theories on Calabi-Yau 3-folds: Approach via stability conditions on derived categories
• Trilinear forms and Chern classes of Calabi--Yau threefolds
• Holomorphic anomaly equations for the Hilbert scheme of points of a K3 surface
• Lost chapters in CHL black holes: untwisted quarter-BPS dyons in the \(\mathbb{Z}_2\) model

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