Hodge-Elliptic genera, K3 surfaces and Enumerative Geometry

DOI10.1007/S00023-023-01375-1arXiv2304.14105OpenAlexW4387537177MaRDI QIDQ6434535FDOQ6434535

Authors: Michele Cirafici 

Publication date: 27 April 2023

Abstract: K3 surfaces play a prominent role in string theory and algebraic geometry. The properties of their enumerative invariants have important consequences in black hole physics and in number theory. To a K3 surface string theory associates an Elliptic genus, a certain partition function directly related to the theory of Jacobi modular forms. A multiplicative lift of the Elliptic genus produces another modular object, an Igusa cusp form, which is the generating function of BPS invariants of K3 x E. In this note we will discuss a refinement of this chain of ideas. The Elliptic genus can be generalized to the so called Hodge-Elliptic genus which is then related to the counting of refined BPS states of K3 x E. We show how such BPS invariants can be computed explicitly in terms of different versions of the Hodge-Elliptic genus, sometimes in closed form, and discuss some generalizations.

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-023-01375-1

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81Txx) Surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties (14Jxx) Unified, higher-dimensional and super field theories (83Exx)

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