Intersection spaces, perverse sheaves and type IIB string theory

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2014.V18.N2.A3zbMATH Open1405.14045arXiv1212.2196OpenAlexW1970188465MaRDI QIDQ485855FDOQ485855

Authors: Markus Banagl, Nero Budur, Laurentiu Maxim 

Publication date: 14 January 2015

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

Abstract: The method of intersection spaces associates rational Poincar'e complexes to singular stratified spaces. For a conifold transition, the resulting cohomology theory yields the correct count of all present massless 3-branes in type IIB string theory, while intersection cohomology yields the correct count of massless 2-branes in type IIA theory. For complex projective hypersurfaces with an isolated singularity, we show that the cohomology of intersection spaces is the hypercohomology of a perverse sheaf, the intersection space complex, on the hypersurface. Moreover, the intersection space complex underlies a mixed Hodge module, so its hypercohomology groups carry canonical mixed Hodge structures. For a large class of singularities, e.g., weighted homogeneous ones, global Poincar'e duality is induced by a more refined Verdier self-duality isomorphism for this perverse sheaf. For such singularities, we prove furthermore that the pushforward of the constant sheaf of a nearby smooth deformation under the specialization map to the singular space splits off the intersection space complex as a direct summand. The complementary summand is the contribution of the singularity. Thus, we obtain for such hypersurfaces a mirror statement of the Beilinson-Bernstein-Deligne decomposition of the pushforward of the constant sheaf under an algebraic resolution map into the intersection sheaf plus contributions from the singularities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2196

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transcendental methods, Hodge theory (algebro-geometric aspects) (14C30) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Other algebro-geometric (co)homologies (e.g., intersection, equivariant, Lawson, Deligne (co)homologies) (14F43) Variation of Hodge structures (algebro-geometric aspects) (14D07)

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