The overarching finite symmetry group of Kummer surfaces in the Mathieu group M₂₄

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2013)125zbMATH Open1342.81470arXiv1107.3834OpenAlexW3101100993MaRDI QIDQ737518FDOQ737518

Authors: Katrin Wendland, Anne Taormina 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In view of a potential interpretation of the role of the Mathieu group M_24 in the context of strings compactified on K3 surfaces, we develop techniques to combine groups of symmetries from different K3 surfaces to larger 'overarching' symmetry groups. We construct a bijection between the full integral homology lattice of K3 and the Niemeier lattice of type (A_1)^24, which is simultaneously compatible with the finite symplectic automorphism groups of all Kummer surfaces lying on an appropriate path in moduli space connecting the square and the tetrahedral Kummer surfaces. The Niemeier lattice serves to express all these symplectic automorphisms as elements of the Mathieu group M_24, generating the 'overarching finite symmetry group' (Z_2)^4:A_7 of Kummer surfaces. This group has order 40320, thus surpassing the size of the largest finite symplectic automorphism group of a K3 surface by orders of magnitude. For every Kummer surface this group contains the group of symplectic automorphisms leaving the Kaehler class invariant which is induced from the underlying torus. Our results are in line with the existence proofs of Mukai and Kondo, that finite groups of symplectic automorphisms of K3 are subgroups of one of eleven subgroups of M_23, and we extend their techniques of lattice embeddings for all Kummer surfaces with Kaehler class induced from the underlying torus.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.3834

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field models in string theorydiscrete and finite symmetriesextended supersymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Compact complex surfaces (32J15) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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