The rigid limit in special Kähler geometry - from -fibrations to special Riemann surfaces: a detailed case study

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/8/003MaRDI QIDQ4699693zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Frederik Denef, Igor Pesando, Marco Billò, Pietro Fré, Walter Troost

Publication date 18 November 1999

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9803228

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau manifoldsflat spacetimespecial Kähler geometrystringssupergravitysupersymmetric gauge theorysupersymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Compact Kähler manifolds: generalizations, classification (32J27) Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: The limiting procedure of special Kahler manifolds to their rigid limit is studied for moduli spaces of Calabi-Yau manifolds in the neighbourhood of certain singularities. In two examples we consider all the periods in and around the rigid limit, identifying the nontrivial ones in the limit as periods of a meromorphic form on the relevant Riemann surfaces. We show how the Kahler potential of the special Kahler manifold reduces to that of a rigid special Kahler manifold. We extensively make use of the structure of these Calabi-Yau manifolds as K3 fibrations, which is useful to obtain the periods even before the K3 degenerates to an ALE manifold in the limit. We study various methods to calculate the periods and their properties. The development of these methods is an important step to obtain exact results from supergravity on Calabi-Yau manifolds.

Review text

Special Kähler geometry is a geometrical structure that is defined by the action functional (containing two derivatives) of the scalars in vector multiplets of \(N=2\) supersymmetric theories in 4 dimensions. There are two types: Local special geometry applies to local supersymmetry, i.e., supergravity and strings, while rigid special geometry applies to rigid supersymmetry, i.e, \(N=2\) supersymmetric gauge theory in flat spacetime. The highly constrained structure of the special geometry makes it possible to find exact analytical expressions for many low-energy effective actions. The paper studies the essential steps involved in taking the rigid limit of a local special Kähler manifold for two examples. Both are moduli spaces of Calabi-Yau manifolds realized as \(K3\) fibrations in weighted projective spaces. All the periods are calculated even before \(K3\) degenerates to an asymptotically locally Euclidean manifold in the limit, the non-trivial ones remaining in the limit being identified as periods of a meromorphic form on the relevant Riemann surface. The results of the paper may be used for a full expansion of the \(N=2\) supergravity action with vector multiplets, which starts with a rigid supersymmetry action.

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