D₅ elliptic fibrations: non-Kodaira fibers and new orientifold limits of F-theory

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2015.V9.N3.A4zbMATH Open1333.81329arXiv1110.6177OpenAlexW1626874316MaRDI QIDQ889127FDOQ889127

Authors: Mboyo Esole, James Fullwood, Shing-Tung Yau 

Publication date: 6 November 2015

Published in: Communications in Number Theory and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A D5 elliptic fibration is a fibration whose generic fiber is modeled by the complete intersection of two quadric surfaces in P3. They provide simple examples of elliptic fibrations admitting a rich spectrum of singular fibers (not all on the list of Kodaira) without introducing singularities in the total space of the fibration and therefore avoiding a discussion of their resolutions. We study systematically the fiber geometry of such fibrations using Segre symbols and compute several topological invariants. We present for the first time Sen's (orientifold) limits for D5 elliptic fibrations. These orientifolds limit describe different weak coupling limits of F-theory to type IIB string theory giving a system of three brane-image-brane pairs in presence of a Z_2 orientifold. The orientifold theory is mathematically described by the double cover the base of the elliptic fibration. Such orientifold theories are characterized by a transition from a semi-stable singular fiber to an unstable one. In this paper, we describe the first example of a weak coupling limit in F-theory characterized by a transition to a non-Kodaira (and non-ADE) fiber. Inspired by string dualities, we obtain non-trivial topological relations connecting the elliptic fibration and the different loci that appear in its weak coupling limit. Mathematically, these are surprising relations relating the total Chern class of the D5 elliptic fibration and those of different loci that naturally appear in the weak coupling limit. We work in arbitrary dimension and our results don't assume the Calabi-Yau condition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6177

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zbMATH Keywords

F-theoryweak coupling limitorientifoldSegre symbols\(D_5\)-elliptic fibrationnon-Kodaira fibersnon-Weierstrass models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibrations, degenerations in algebraic geometry (14D06) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Elliptic curves (14H52)

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