K3 surfaces without section as double covers of Halphen surfaces, and F-theory compactifications

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTY039MaRDI QIDQ5155789zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yusuke Kimura

Publication date 8 October 2021

Published in PTEP. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06525

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic surfaces, elliptic or Calabi-Yau fibrations (14J27) (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We construct several examples of genus-one fibered K3 surfaces without a global section with type $I_n$ fibers, by considering double covers of a special class of rational elliptic surfaces lacking a global section, known as Halphen surfaces of index 2. The resulting K3 surfaces have bisection geometries. F-theory compactifications on these K3 genus-one fibrations without a section times a K3 yield models that have $SU(n)$ gauge symmetries with a discrete $mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry.

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