Spectral covers, integrality conditions, and heterotic/F-theory duality

DOI10.5427/JSING.2016.15AzbMATH Open1346.81109arXiv1603.09198OpenAlexW2334794562MaRDI QIDQ2818784FDOQ2818784

Authors: Lara B. Anderson 

Publication date: 8 September 2016

Published in: Journal of Singularities (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this work we review a systematic, algorithmic construction of dual heterotic/F-theory geometries corresponding to 4-dimensional, N = 1 supersymmetric compactifications. We look in detail at a class of well-defined Calabi-Yau fourfolds for which the standard formulation of the duality map appears to fail, leading to dual heterotic geometry which appears naively incompatible with the spectral cover construction of vector bundles. In the simplest class of examples the F-theory background consists of a generically singular elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau fourfold with E7 symmetry. The vector bundles arising in the corresponding heterotic theory appear to violate an integrality condition of an SU(2) spectral cover. A possible resolution of this puzzle is explored by studying the most general form of the integrality condition. This leads to the geometric challenge of determining the Picard group of surfaces of general type. We take an important first step in this direction by computing the Hodge numbers of an explicit spectral surface and bounding the Picard number.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09198

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zbMATH Keywords

algebraic geometryPicard numbersurfaces of general typeF-theoryheterotic string compactification4-dimensional \(\mathcal N=1\) string dualities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli (14J60) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) (4)-folds (14J35) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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