Calabi-Yau orbifolds and torus coverings

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2011)116MaRDI QIDQ480478zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Amihay Hanany, Sanjaye Ramgoolam, R.-K. Seong, Vishnu Jejjala

Publication date 8 December 2014

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3471

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field models in string theoryD-branesdifferential and algebraic geometrysuperstring vacua

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Coverings in algebraic geometry (14E20) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Topology and geometry of orbifolds (57R18) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Polynomials (11S05) Representations of quivers and partially ordered sets (16G20)

Abstract: The theory of coverings of the two-dimensional torus is a standard part of algebraic topology and has applications in several topics in string theory, for example, in topological strings. This paper initiates applications of this theory to the counting of orbifolds of toric Calabi-Yau singularities, with particular attention to Abelian orbifolds of C^D. By doing so, the work introduces a novel analytical method for counting Abelian orbifolds, verifying previous algorithm results. One identifies a p-fold cover of the torus T^{D-1} with an Abelian orbifold of the form C^D/Z_p, for any dimension D and a prime number p. The counting problem leads to polynomial equations modulo p for a given Abelian subgroup of S_D, the group of discrete symmetries of the toric diagram for C^D. The roots of the polynomial equations correspond to orbifolds of the form C^D/Z_p, which are invariant under the corresponding subgroup of S_Ds. In turn, invariance under this subgroup implies a discrete symmetry for the corresponding quiver gauge theory, as is clearly seen by its brane tiling formulation.

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