Kummer surfaces associated with Seiberg-Witten curves

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2011.09.010zbMATH Open1236.14044arXiv0912.4774OpenAlexW2038436225MaRDI QIDQ654802FDOQ654802

Andreas Malmendier

Publication date: 21 December 2011

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By carrying out a rational transformation on the base curve $mathbb{CP}^1$ of the Seiberg-Witten curve for $mathcalN=2$ supersymmetric pure $mathrmSU(2)$-gauge theory, we obtain a family of Jacobian elliptic K3 surfaces of Picard rank 17. The isogeny relating the Seiberg-Witten curve for pure $mathrmSU(2)$-gauge theory to the one for $mathrmSU(2)$-gauge theory with $N_f=2$ massless hypermultiplets extends to define a Nikulin involution on each K3 surface in the family. We show that the desingularization of the quotient of the K3 surface by the involution is isomorphic to a Kummer surface of the Jacobian variety of a curve of genus two. We then derive a relation between the Yukawa coupling associated with the elliptic K3 surface and the Yukawa coupling of pure $mathrmSU(2)$-gauge theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.4774

zbMATH Keywords

\(K3\) surfaceselliptic surfacesKummer surfacesSeiberg-Witten curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants) (14J80) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Elliptic surfaces, elliptic or Calabi-Yau fibrations (14J27)

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