scholarly journals Genus zero Gopakumar-Vafa invariants from open strings

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Collinucci ◽  
Andrea Sangiovanni ◽  
Roberto Valandro

Abstract We propose a new way to compute the genus zero Gopakumar-Vafa invariants for two families of non-toric non-compact Calabi-Yau threefolds that admit simple flops: Reid’s Pagodas, and Laufer’s examples. We exploit the duality between M-theory on these threefolds, and IIA string theory with D6-branes and O6-planes. From this perspective, the GV invariants are detected as five-dimensional open string zero modes. We propose a definition for genus zero GV invariants for threefolds that do not admit small crepant resolutions. We find that in most cases, non-geometric T-brane data is required in order to fully specify the invariants.

1988 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 283-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIYOSHI SHIRAISHI

Wilson loop elements on torus are introduced into the partition function of open strings as Polyakov’s path integral at one-loop level. Mass spectra from compactification and expected symmetry breaking are illustrated by choosing the correct weight for the contributions from annulus and Möbius strip. We show that Jacobi’s imaginary transformation connects the mass spectra with the Wilson loops. The application to thermopartition function and cosmological implications are briefly discussed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (17) ◽  
pp. 1850100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuharu Bamba ◽  
Davood Momeni ◽  
Mudhahir Al Ajmi

In this paper, we will compute the holographic complexity (dual to a volume in AdS), holographic fidelity susceptibility and the holographic entanglement entropy (dual to an area in AdS) in a two-dimensional version of AdS which is dual to open strings. We will explicitly demonstrate that these quantities are well defined, and then argue that a relation for fidelity susceptibility and time should hold in general due to the AdS2 version of the classical Kepler’s principle. We will demonstrate that it holds for AdS2 solution as well as conformal copies metrics in bulk theory of a prescribed dual conformal invariant quantum mechanics which have been obtained in open string theory. We will also show that hierarchical UV/IR mixing exists in boundary string theory through the holographic bulk picture.


1993 ◽  
Vol 08 (20) ◽  
pp. 3599-3614 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSEPH A. MINAHAN

We propose a random matrix model as a representation for D = 1 open strings. We show that the model with one flavor of boundary fields is equivalent to N fermions with spin in a central potential that also includes a long-range ferromagnetic interaction between the fermions that falls off as 1/(rij)2. We also generalize this theory to contain an arbitrary number of flavors. For an appropriate choice of the matrix model potential the ground state of the system can be found. Using this potential, we calculate the free energy in the double scaling limit and show that the free energy expansion has the expected form for a theory of open and closed strings if the boundary field mass and couplings have a logarithmic divergence. We then examine the critical properties of this theory and show that the length of the boundary around a hole remains finite, even near the critical point. We also argue that unlike critical string theory or a D = 0 theory, the open string coupling constant is a free parameter.


2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (24) ◽  
pp. 1350116 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. SATHIAPALAN

We formulate the Exact Renormalization Group on the string worldsheet for closed string backgrounds. The same techniques that were used for open strings are used here. There are some subtleties. One is that holomorphic factorization of the closed string vertex operators does not hold in the presence of a cutoff on the Euclidean worldsheet. This introduces extra terms in the Lagrangian at the cutoff scale and they turn out to be crucial for implementing gauge invariance. This naive generalization from open string to closed string requires a massive graviton and the gauge symmetry is Abelian, just as in open string theory. Interestingly, it turns out that if one introduces a nondynamical background metric (as in background field formalism) and combines a gauge transformation on the field with a transformation on the coordinates and background metric, the graviton can be massless. Some examples of background coordinate covariant equations are worked out explicitly. A preliminary discussion of massive modes, massive gauge transformations and the role of worldsheet regulator terms is given. Some of the gauge transformations can be given a geometric meaning if space–time is assumed to be complex at some level.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (04n06) ◽  
pp. 211-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHONG-SUN CHU ◽  
RODOLFO RUSSO

The multiloop amplitudes for open bosonic string in the presence of a constant B-field are derived from first principles. The basic ingredients of the construction are the commutation relations for the string modes and the Reggeon vertex describing the interaction among three generic string states. The modifications due to the presence of the B-field affect nontrivially only the zero modes. This makes it possible to write in a simple and elegant way the general expression for multiloop string amplitudes in the presence of a constant B-field. The field theory limit of these string amplitudes is also considered. We show that it reproduces exactly the Feynman diagrams of noncommutative field theories. Issues of uv/ir are briefly discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadashi Okazaki ◽  
Douglas J. Smith

Abstract We derive general BPS boundary conditions in two-dimensional $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = (2, 2) supersymmetric gauge theories. We analyze the solutions of these boundary conditions, and in particular those that allow the bulk fields to have poles at the boundary. We also present the brane configurations for the half- and quarter-BPS boundary conditions of the $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = (2, 2) supersymmetric gauge theories in terms of branes in Type IIA string theory. We find that both A-type and B-type brane configurations are lifted to M-theory as a system of M2-branes ending on an M5-brane wrapped on a product of a holomorphic curve in ℂ2 with a special Lagrangian 3-cycle in ℂ3.


Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Richard Pincak ◽  
Alexander Pigazzini ◽  
Saeid Jafari ◽  
Cenap Ozel

The main purpose of this paper is to show and introduce some new interpretative aspects of the concept of “emergent space” as geometric/topological approach in the cosmological field. We will present some possible applications of this theory, among which the possibility of considering a non-orientable wormhole, but mainly we provide a topological interpretation, using this new approach, to M-Theory and String Theory in 10 dimensions. Further, we present some conclusions which this new interpretation suggests, and also some remarks considering a unifying approach between strings and dark matter. The approach shown in the paper considers that reality, as it appears to us, can be the “emerging” part of a more complex hidden structure. Pacs numbers: 11.25.Yb; 11.25.-w; 02.40.Ky; 02.40.-k; 04.50.-h; 95.35.+d.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaume Gomis ◽  
Ziqi Yan ◽  
Matthew Yu

Abstract We uncover a Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT)-type factorization of closed string amplitudes into open string amplitudes for closed string states carrying winding and momentum in toroidal compactifications. The winding and momentum closed string quantum numbers map respectively to the integer and fractional winding quantum numbers of open strings ending on a D-brane array localized in the compactified directions. The closed string amplitudes factorize into products of open string scattering amplitudes with the open strings ending on a D-brane configuration determined by closed string data.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril Closset ◽  
Simone Giacomelli ◽  
Sakura Schäfer-Nameki ◽  
Yi-Nan Wang

Abstract Canonical threefold singularities in M-theory and Type IIB string theory give rise to superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in 5d and 4d, respectively. In this paper, we study canonical hypersurface singularities whose resolutions contain residual terminal singularities and/or 3-cycles. We focus on a certain class of ‘trinion’ singularities which exhibit these properties. In Type IIB, they give rise to 4d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 SCFTs that we call $$ {D}_p^b $$ D p b (G)-trinions, which are marginal gaugings of three SCFTs with G flavor symmetry. In order to understand the 5d physics of these trinion singularities in M-theory, we reduce these 4d and 5d SCFTs to 3d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 theories, thus determining the electric and magnetic quivers (or, more generally, quiverines). In M-theory, residual terminal singularities give rise to free sectors of massless hypermultiplets, which often are discretely gauged. These free sectors appear as ‘ugly’ components of the magnetic quiver of the 5d SCFT. The 3-cycles in the crepant resolution also give rise to free hypermultiplets, but their physics is more subtle, and their presence renders the magnetic quiver ‘bad’. We propose a way to redeem the badness of these quivers using a class $$ \mathcal{S} $$ S realization. We also discover new S-dualities between different $$ {D}_p^b $$ D p b (G)-trinions. For instance, a certain E8 gauging of the E8 Minahan-Nemeschansky theory is S-dual to an E8-shaped Lagrangian quiver SCFT.


1994 ◽  
Vol 414 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 114-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Behrndt

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