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Exact Kahler Potential for Calabi-Yau Fourfolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-15 v3

Abstract

We study quantum Kahler moduli space of Calabi-Yau fourfolds. Our analysis is based on the recent work by Jockers et al. which gives a novel method to compute the Kahler potential on the quantum Kahler moduli space of Calabi-Yau manifold. In contrast to Calabi-Yau threefold, the quantum nature of higher dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold is yet to be fully elucidated. In this paper we focus on the Calabi-Yau fourfold. In particular, we conjecture the explicit form of the quantum-corrected Kahler potential. We also compute the genus zero Gromov-Witten invariants and test our conjecture by comparing the results with predictions from mirror symmetry. Local toric Calabi-Yau varieties are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1302.3760,
  title  = {Exact Kahler Potential for Calabi-Yau Fourfolds},
  author = {Yoshinori Honma and Masahide Manabe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.3760},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

40 pages. v2: minor corrections. v3: minor changes, some clarifications in section 4.4 and appendix A.3