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Dyon degeneracies from Mathieu moonshine

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-11-01 v2

Abstract

We construct the Siegel modular forms associated with the theta lift of twisted elliptic genera of K3K3 orbifolded with gg' corresponding to the conjugacy classes of the Mathieu group M24M_{24}. We complete the construction for all the classes which belong to M23M24M_{23} \subset M_{24} and two other classes outside the subgroup M23M_{23}. For this purpose we provide the explicit expressions for all the twisted elliptic genera in all the sectors of these classes. We show that the Siegel modular forms satisfy the required properties for them to be generating functions of 1/41/4 BPS dyons of type II string theories compactified on K3×T2K3\times T^2 and orbifolded by gg' which acts as a ZN\mathbb{Z}_N automorphism on K3K3 together with a 1/N1/N shift on a circle of T2T^2. In particular the inverse of these Siegel modular forms admit a Fourier expansion with integer coefficients together with the right sign as predicted from black hole physics. Our analysis completes the construction of the partition function for dyons as well as the twisted elliptic genera for all the 77 CHL compactifications.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1704.00434,
  title  = {Dyon degeneracies from Mathieu moonshine},
  author = {Aradhita Chattopadhyaya and Justin R. David},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.00434},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Section on comparison with earlier literature added, References added

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