Flopping and slicing: SO(4) and Spin(4)-models

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2019.V23.N4.A2MaRDI QIDQ2665897zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Mboyo Esole, Monica Jinwoo Kang

Publication date 19 November 2021

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04802

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Elliptic surfaces, elliptic or Calabi-Yau fibrations (14J27) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Higher spin theories (81T11) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We study the geometric engineering of gauge theories with gauge group Spin(4) and SO(4) using crepant resolutions of Weierstrass models. The corresponding elliptic fibrations realize a collision of singularities corresponding to two fibers with dual graph the affine $A_1$ Dynkin diagram. There are eight different ways to engineer such collisions using decorated Kodaira fibers. The Mordell-Weil group of the elliptic fibration is required to be trivial for Spin(4) and Z/2Z for SO(4). Each of these models have two possible crepant resolutions connected by a flop. We also compute a generating function for the Euler characteristic of such elliptic fibrations over a base of arbitrary dimensions. In the case of a threefold, we also compute the triple intersection numbers of the fibral divisors. In the case of Calabi-Yau threefolds, we also compute their Hodge numbers, and check the cancellations of anomalies in a six-dimensional supergravity theory.

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