Weak coupling, degeneration and log Calabi-Yau spaces

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2013.V9.N4.A4MaRDI QIDQ489948zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Sheldon Katz, Ron Donagi, Martijn P. Wijnholt

Publication date 21 January 2015

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0553

zbMATH Keywords

smoothingelliptic fibrationCalabi-Yaustring compactification\(F\)-theoryvariation of Hodge structuresemi-stable degeneration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibrations, degenerations in algebraic geometry (14D06) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Mirror symmetry (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J33) Variation of Hodge structures (algebro-geometric aspects) (14D07)

Abstract: We establish a new weak coupling limit in F-theory. The new limit may be thought of as the process in which a local model bubbles off from the rest of the Calabi-Yau. The construction comes with a small deformation parameter $t$ such that computations in the local model become exact as $to0$. More generally, we advocate a modular approach where compact Calabi-Yau geometries are obtained by gluing together local pieces (log Calabi-Yau spaces) into a normal crossing variety and smoothing, in analogy with a similar cutting and gluing approach to topological field theories. We further argue for a holographic relation between F-theory on a degenerate Calabi-Yau and a dual theory on its boundary, which fits nicely with the gluing construction.

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