SU(2) channels the cancellation of K3 BPS states

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2020)184zbMATH Open1436.83091arXiv1908.03148OpenAlexW3103476436MaRDI QIDQ780883FDOQ780883

Anne Taormina, Katrin Wendland

Publication date: 15 July 2020

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

Abstract: The conformal field theoretic elliptic genus, an invariant for N=(2,2) superconformal field theories, counts the BPS states in any such theory with signs, according to their bosonic or fermionic nature. For K3 theories, this invariant is the source of the Mathieu Moonshine phenomenon. There, the net number of quarter BPS states is positive for any conformal dimension above the massless threshold, but it may arise after cancellation of the contributions of an equal number of bosonic and fermionic BPS states present in non-generic theories, as is the case for the class of Z2-orbifolds of toroidal SCFTs. Nevertheless, the space H-roof of all BPS states that are generic to such orbifold theories provides a convenient framework to construct a particular generic space of states of K3 theories. We find a natural action of the group SU(2) on a subspace of H-roof which is compatible with the cancellations of contributions from the corresponding non-generic states. In fact, we propose that this action channels those cancellations. As a by-product, we find a new subspace of the generic space of states in H-roof.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03148

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryconformal field models in string theoryextended supersymmetrynonperturbative effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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