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Characteristic numbers of crepant resolutions of Weierstrass models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-10-14 v1 Mathematical Physics Algebraic Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We compute characteristic numbers of crepant resolutions of Weierstrass models corresponding to elliptically fibered fourfolds YY dual in F-theory to a gauge theory with gauge group GG. In contrast to the case of fivefolds, Chern and Pontryagin numbers of fourfolds are invariant under crepant birational maps. It follows that Chern and Pontryagin numbers are independent on a choice of a crepant resolution. We present the results for the Euler characteristic, the holomorphic genera, the Todd-genus, the LL-genus, the A^\hat{A}-genus, and the curvature invariant X8X_8 that appears in M-theory. We also show that certain characteristic classes are independent on the choice of the Kodaria fiber characterizing the group GG. That is the case of Yc12c2\int_Y c_1^2 c_2, the arithmetic genus, and the A^\hat{A}-genus. Thus, it is enough to know Yc22\int_Y c_2^2 and the Euler characteristic χ(Y)\chi(Y) to determine all the Chern numbers of an elliptically fibered fourfold. We consider the cases of G=G= SU(nn) for (n=2,3,4,5,6,7n=2,3,4,5,6,7), USp(44), Spin(77), Spin(88), Spin(1010), G2_2, F4_4, E6_6, E7_7, or E8_8.

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@article{arxiv.1807.08755,
  title  = {Characteristic numbers of crepant resolutions of Weierstrass models},
  author = {Mboyo Esole and Monica Jinwoo Kang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.08755},
  year   = {2019}
}

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