Worldsheet instantons,torsion curves and non-perturbative superpotentials

As a first step towards computing instanton-generated superpotentials in heterotic standard model vacua, we determine the Gromov–Witten invariants for a Calabi–Yau threefold with fundamental group π₁(X)=Z₃×Z₃${\pi }_1(X)={\mathbb{Z}}_3\times {\mathbb{Z}}_3$. We find that the curves fall into homology classes in H₂(X,Z)=Z³⊕(Z₃⊕Z₃)$H_2(X,\mathbb{Z})={\mathbb{Z}}^3\oplus ({\mathbb{Z}}_3\oplus {\mathbb{Z}}_3)$. The unexpected appearance of the finite torsion subgroup in the homology group complicates our analysis. However, we succeed in computing the complete genus-0 prepotential. Expanding it as a power series, the number of instantons in any integral homology class can be read off. This is the first explicit calculation of the Gromov–Witten invariants of homology classes with torsion. We find that some curve classes contain only a single instanton. This ensures that the contribution to the superpotential from each such instanton cannot cancel.     

Covariant first-order Lagrangians,energy-density and superpotentials in general relativity

A class of covariant first-order Lagrangians for General Relativity interacting with external matter fields is considered. These Lagrangians depend on the choice of a background connection which has no dynamics. The Poincaré-Cartan form, energy density flows and energy-momentum tensors are derived for this class of Lagrangians by applying standard methods, and the results are compared with those appearing in current literature. We obtain new results concerning superpotentials and covariant conservation laws. As an example, these are applied to calculate the mass and angular momentum for the Schwarzschild and Kerr black-holes.     

Quantum Permanents and Hafnians via Pfaffians

Quantum determinants and Pfaffians or permanents and Hafnians are introduced on the two-parameter quantum general linear group. Fundamental identities among quantum Pf, Hf, and det are proved in the general setting. We show that there are two special quantum algebras among the quantum groups, where the quantum Pfaffians have integral Laurent polynomials as coefficients. As a consequence, the quantum Hafnian is computed by a closely related quantum permanent and identical to the quantum Pfaffian on this special quantum algebra.     

Calibrated geometries and non-perturbative superpotentials in M-theory

We consider non-perturbative effects in M-theory compactifications on a seven-manifold of holonomy arising from membranes wrapped on supersymmetric three-cycles. When membranes are wrapped on associative submanifolds they induce a superpotential that can be calculated using calibrated geometry. This superpotential is also derived from compactification on a seven-manifold, to four dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime, of eleven dimensional supergravity with non-vanishing expectation value of the four-form field strength. Received: 28 June 2000 / Published online: 21 December 2000     

Existence of parallel sections of a vector bundle

We consider when a smooth vector bundle endowed with a connection possesses non-trivial, local parallel sections. This is accomplished by means of a derived flag of subsets of the bundle. The procedure is algebraic and rests upon the Frobenius Theorem. For the case of the bundle of symmetric bilinear forms on a manifold our method answers the question as to when a connection on the manifold is locally a metric connection.     

On the natural line bundle on the moduli space of stable parabolic bundles

We construct the natural holomorphic line bundle on the moduli space of stable parabolic bundles on a compact marked Riemann surface, which is the prequantum line bundle for the Chern-Simons gauge theory. The fusion rule in the Chern-Simons gauge theory can be viewed as the existence condition of this line bundle.     

Mirror symmetry,D-brane superpotentials and Ooguri-Vafa invariants of Calabi-Yau manifolds

The D-brane superpotential is very important in the low energy effective theory.As the generating function of all disk instantons from the worldsheet point of view,it plays a crucial role in deriving some important properties of the compact Calabi-Yau manifolds.By using the generalized GKZ hypergeometric system,we will calculate the D-brane superpotentials of two non-Fermat type compact Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in toric varieties,respectively.Then according to the mirror symmetry,we obtain the A-model superpotentials and the Ooguri-Vafa invariants for the mirror Calabi-Yau manifolds.     

Five-brane superpotentials and heterotic/F-theory duality

Under heterotic/F-theory duality it was argued that a wide class of heterotic five-branes is mapped into the geometry of an F-theory compactification manifold. In four-dimensional compactifications this identifies a five-brane wrapped on a curve in the base of an elliptically fibered Calabi–Yau threefold with a specific F-theory Calabi–Yau fourfold containing the blow-up of the five-brane curve. We argue that this duality can be reformulated by first constructing a non-Calabi–Yau heterotic threefold by blowing up the curve of the five-brane into a divisor with five-brane flux. Employing heterotic/F-theory duality this leads us to the construction of a Calabi–Yau fourfold and four-form flux. Moreover, we obtain an explicit map between the five-brane superpotential and an F-theory flux superpotential. The map of the open–closed deformation problem of a five-brane in a compact Calabi–Yau threefold into a deformation problem of complex structures on a dual Calabi–Yau fourfold with four-form flux provides a powerful tool to explicitly compute the five-brane superpotential.     

Dirac equation in metric-affine gravitation theories and superpotentials

We consider a metric-affine gravitational framework in which the dynamical fields are the spin structures, the general linear connections, and the Dirac fermion fields. Using a spin structure and a linear connection on the world manifold, we construct a principal connection on the spinor bundle. By applying general ideas concerning the conservation laws in the Lagrangian approach to field theory, we examine the corresponding conserved currents. The main result is that the currents associated with infinitesimal vertical (internal) transformations of the covariance group are shown to vanish identically. It follows that to every vector field on the world manifold there corresponds a well-defined current, the stress-energymomentum of the fields. It turns out that the fermion fields do not contribute at all to the superpotential terms. Actually the expression we get for the superpotential generalizes the well-known expression obtained by Komar.     

D-brane superpotentials and Ooguri-Vafa invariants of compact Calabi-Yau threefolds

We calculate the D-brane superpotentials for two compact Calabi-Yau manifolds X14(1,1,2,3,7) and X8(1, 1, 1, 2, 3) which are of non-Fermat type in the type II string theory. By constructing the open mirror symmetry,we also compute the Ooguri-Vafa invariants, which are related to the open Gromov-Witten invariants.     

Elliptic free-fermion model with OS boundary and elliptic Pfaffians

We introduce and study a class of partition functions of an elliptic free-fermionic face model. We study the partition functions with a triangular boundary using the off-diagonal K-matrix at the boundary (OS boundary), which was introduced by Kuperberg as a class of variants of the domain wall boundary partition functions. We find explicit forms of the partition functions with OS boundary using elliptic Pfaffians. We find two expressions based on two versions of Korepin’s method, and we obtain an identity between two elliptic Pfaffians as a corollary.

     

Lifting geometric objects to a cotangent bundle, and the geometry of the cotangent bundle of a tangent bundle

We show that the cotangent bundle T^*T of the tangent bundle of any differentiable manifold carries an integrable almost tangent structure which is generated by a natural lifting procedure from the canonical almost tangent structure (vertical endomorphism) of T . Using this almost tangent structure we show that T^*T is diffeomorphic to a tangent bundle, namely TT^* . This provides a new and geometrically instructive proof of a result of Tulczyjew, which has applications in Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics and in field theory The requisite general definitions and results concerning liftings of geometric objects from a manifold to its cotangent bundle are given. As an application, we shed new light on the meaning of so-called adjoint symmetries of second-order differential equations.     

The conservation of source strength in linear field theories and the superpotentials

In linear field theories for vector potentialsAi and tensor potentialsgik=gki, the Maxwell and the linearized Einstein equations are the only field equations from which true conservation laws result for each gauge of the field equations.