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Dressed elliptic genus of heterotic compactifications with torsion and general bundles

Authors :
Dan Israel
Matthieu Sarkis
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies (LPTHE)
Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Source :
Journal of High Energy Physics, Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer, 2016, pp.176. ⟨10.1007/JHEP08(2016)176⟩, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016, 8, pp.176. ⟨10.1007/JHEP08(2016)176⟩
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
HAL CCSD, 2016.

Abstract

We define and compute the dressed elliptic genus of N = 2 heterotic compactifications with torsion that are principal two-torus bundles over a K3 surface. We consider the most general gauge bundle compatible with supersymmetry, a stable holomorphic vector bundle over the base together with an Abelian bundle over the total space, generalizing the computation previously done by the authors in the absence of the latter. Starting from a (0,2) gauged linear sigma-model with torsion we use supersymmetric localization to obtain the result. We provide also a mathematical definition of the dressed elliptic genus as a modified Euler characteristic and prove that both expressions agree for hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces. Finally we show that it admits a natural decomposition in terms of N = 4 superconformal characters, that may be useful to investigate moonshine phenomena for this wide class of N = 2 vacua, that includes K3*T2 compactifications as special cases.<br />Comment: 36 pages, version published in JHEP

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
11266708 and 10298479
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Journal of High Energy Physics, Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer, 2016, pp.176. ⟨10.1007/JHEP08(2016)176⟩, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016, 8, pp.176. ⟨10.1007/JHEP08(2016)176⟩
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....9c2e9f1edd1b8a13e76e2bf9517f8442
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2016)176⟩