Rigid Calabi-Yau threefolds, Picard Eisenstein series and instantons
Paper i proceeding, 2013

Type IIA string theory compactified on a rigid Calabi-Yau threefold gives rise to a classical moduli space that carries an isometric action of U(2, 1). Various quantum corrections break this continuous isometry to a discrete subgroup. Focussing on the case where the intermediate Jacobian of the Calabi-Yau admits complex multiplication by the ring of quadratic imaginary integers script O signd, we argue that the remaining quantum duality group is an arithmetic Picard modular group PU(2, 1; script O signd). Based on this proposal we construct an Eisenstein series invariant under this duality group and study its non-Abelian Fourier expansion. This allows the prediction of non-perturbative effects, notably the contribution of D2- and NS5-brane instantons. The present work extends our previous analysis in 0909.4299 which was restricted to the special case of the Gaussian integers script O sign1 = ℤ[i].

Författare

Ling Bao

Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques

Axel Kleinschmidt

Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Bengt E W Nilsson

Chalmers, Teknisk fysik, Matematisk fysik

Daniel Persson

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH)

B. Pioline

Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

17426588 (ISSN) 17426596 (eISSN)

Vol. 462 1 012026

Styrkeområden

Nanovetenskap och nanoteknik

Ämneskategorier

Fysik

DOI

10.1088/1742-6596/462/1/012026

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