Consistency of orbifold conformal field theories on K3.

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2001.V5.N3.A1zbMATH Open1034.81044arXivhep-th/0010281MaRDI QIDQ700565FDOQ700565

Katrin Wendland

Publication date: 22 October 2002

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

Abstract: We explicitly determine the locations of G orbifold conformal field theories, G=Z_M, M=2,3,4,6, G=hat D_n, n=4,5, or G the binary tetrahedral group hat T, within the moduli space M^{K3} of N=(4,4) superconformal field theories associated to K3. This is achieved purely from the known description of the moduli space [AM94] and the requirement of a consistent embedding of orbifold conformal field theories within M^{K3}. We calculate the Kummer type lattices for all these orbifold limits. Our method allows an elementary derivation of the B-field values in direction of the exceptional divisors that arise from the orbifold procedure [Asp95,Dou97,BI97], without recourse to D-geometry. We show that our consistency requirement fixes these values uniquely and determine them explicitly. The relation of our results to the classical McKay correspondence is discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0010281

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorystring theoryK3 surfacesKummer latticesmoduli problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27) Relations with algebraic geometry and topology (11F23)

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