Symmetries of K3 sigma models

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2012.V6.N1.A1MaRDI QIDQ2392082zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Matthias R. Gaberdiel, Roberto Volpato, S. Hohenegger

Publication date 7 August 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4315

zbMATH Keywords

\(\sigma\)-modelConway groupmoduli spacesupersymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: It is shown that the supersymmetry-preserving automorphisms of any non-linear sigma-model on K3 generate a subgroup of the Conway group Co_1. This is the stringy generalisation of the classical theorem, due to Mukai and Kondo, showing that the symplectic automorphisms of any K3 manifold form a subgroup of the Mathieu group M_{23}. The Conway group Co_1 contains the Mathieu group M_{24} (and therefore in particular M_{23}) as a subgroup. We confirm the predictions of the Theorem with three explicit CFT realisations of K3: the T^4/Z_2 orbifold at the self-dual point, and the two Gepner models (2)^4 and (1)^6. In each case we demonstrate that their symmetries do not form a subgroup of M_{24}, but lie inside Co_1 as predicted by our Theorem.

Review text

The spacetime supersymmetry preserving automorphisms of the non-linear \(\sigma\)-model at an arbitrary point in the moduli space of \(K_3\) is studied. It is shown that such automorphisms generate a subgroup of the Conway group \(Co_1\). This result is considered as a stringy generalization of the Mukai-Kondo theorem showing that the symplectic automorphisms of any \(K_3\) manifold is a subgroup of the Mathieu group \(M_{24}\). Three distinct conformal field theories describing \(K_3\) at different points in moduli space are studied in detail: (A) the orbifold point \(\mathbb T^4/\mathbb Z_2\); (B) the orbifold point \(\mathbb T^4/\mathbb Z_4\) which is equivalent to the Gepner model \((2)^4\); (C) the Gepner model \((1)^6\). In each case it is proven that their symmetries do not form a subgroup of \(M_{24}\), but lie inside of the Conway group \(Co_1\). Details of the proof of the basic Theorem and of the D-brane charge analysis for the Gepner models as well as some basic mathematical backgrounds are given in three Appendices.

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