BPS States, String Duality, and Nodal Curves on K3
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-26 v1 alg-geom
Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
We describe the counting of BPS states of Type II strings on K3 by relating the supersymmetric cycles of genus to the number of rational curves with double points on K3. The generating function for the number of such curves is the left-moving partition function of the bosonic string.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9512121,
title = {BPS States, String Duality, and Nodal Curves on K3},
author = {Shing-Tung Yau and Eric Zaslow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9512121},
year = {2015}
}
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12 pages, harvmac