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BPS Dendroscopy on Local $P^2$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-05-14 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

The spectrum of BPS states in type IIA string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold famously jumps across codimension-one walls in complexified K\"ahler moduli space, leading to an intricate chamber structure. The Split Attractor Flow Conjecture posits that the BPS index Ωz(γ)\Omega_z(\gamma) for given charge γ\gamma and moduli zz can be reconstructed from the attractor indices Ω(γi)\Omega_*(\gamma_i) counting BPS states of charge γi\gamma_i in their respective attractor chamber, by summing over a finite set of decorated rooted flow trees known as attractor flow trees. If correct, this provides a classification (or dendroscopy) of the BPS spectrum into different topologies of nested BPS bound states, each having a simple chamber structure. Here we investigate this conjecture for the simplest, albeit non-compact, Calabi-Yau threefold, namely the canonical bundle over the projective plane P2P^2. Since the K\"ahler moduli space has complex dimension one and the attractor flow preserves the argument of the central charge, attractor flow trees coincide with scattering sequences of rays in a two-dimensional slice of the scattering diagram in the space of stability conditions on the derived category of compactly supported coherent sheaves on KP2K_{P^2}. We combine previous results on the scattering diagram of KP2K_{P^2} in the large volume slice with new results near the orbifold point C3/Z3\mathbb{C}^3/\mathbb{Z}_3, and prove that the Split Attractor Flow Conjecture holds true on the physical slice of Π\Pi-stability conditions. In particular, while there is an infinite set of initial rays related by the group Γ1(3)\Gamma_1(3) of auto-equivalences, only a finite number of possible decompositions γ=iγi\gamma=\sum_i\gamma_i contribute to the index Ωz(γ)\Omega_z(\gamma) for any γ\gamma and zz, with constituents γi\gamma_i related by spectral flow to the fractional branes at the orbifold point.

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@article{arxiv.2210.10712,
  title  = {BPS Dendroscopy on Local $P^2$},
  author = {Pierrick Bousseau and Pierre Descombes and Bruno Le Floch and Boris Pioline},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.10712},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

61+23 pages, 32 figures; v3: final version to appear in Comm. Math. Phys

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