String partition functions and infinite products

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2000.V4.N2.A7MaRDI QIDQ5946034zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Toshiya Kawai, Kōta Yoshioka

Publication date 18 June 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0002169

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau manifoldsD-branesGromov-Witten potentialsKähler moduli

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jacobi forms (11F50) (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We continue to explore the conjectural expressions of the Gromov-Witten potentials for a class of elliptically and K3 fibered Calabi-Yau 3-folds in the limit where the base P^1 of the K3 fibration becomes infinitely large. At least in this limit we argue that the string partition function (=the exponential generating function of the Gromov-Witten potentials) can be expressed as an infinite product in which the Kahler moduli and the string coupling are treated somewhat on an equal footing. Technically speaking, we use the exponential lifting of a weight zero Jacobi form to reach the infinite product as in the celebrated work of Borcherds. However, the relevant Jacobi form is associated with a lattice of Lorentzian signature. A major part of this work is devoted to an attempt to interpret the infinite product or more precisely the Jacobi form in terms of the bound states of D2- and D0-branes using a vortex description and its suitable generalization.

Review text

This paper continues the exploration, begun by \textit{T. Kawai} [String duality and enumeration of curves by Jacobi forms, in ``Integrable systems and algebraic geometry (M.-H. Saito, Y. Shimizu and K. Ueno, eds.), World Scientific, 282-314 (1998; Zbl 1005.11016), hep-th/9804014], of the conjectural expression for the Gromov-Wittten potentials for a class of elliptically and \(K3\) fibered Calabi-Yau 3-folds in the limit where the base \(P^1\) of the \(K3\) fibration becomes infinitely large. It is argued that at least in this limit the string partition function (= the exponential generating function of the Gromov-Witten potentials) can be expressed as an infinite product in which the Kähler moduli and the string coupling are treated on an equal footing. Technically speaking, the authors use the exponential lifting of the weight zero Jacobi form to reach the infinite product as in the work of \textit{R. E. Borcherds} [Invent. Math. 120, 161-213 (1995; Zbl 0932.11028)]. However the relevant Jacobi form is here associated with a lattice of Lorentzian signature. A major part of the paper is devoted to an attempt to interpret the infinite product or more precisely the Jacobi form in terms of the bound states of D2- and D0-branes using a vortex description and its suitable generalization.

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