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From strings in 6d to strings in 5d

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-02-17 v3

Abstract

We show how recent progress in computing elliptic genera of strings in six dimensions can be used to obtain expressions for elliptic genera of strings in five-dimensional field theories which have a six-dimensional parent. We further connect our results to recent mathematical results about sheaf counting on ruled surfaces.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1502.06645,
  title  = {From strings in 6d to strings in 5d},
  author = {Babak Haghighat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.06645},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

17 pages, 4 figures. v3: Definitions clarified, Section "Concluding Thoughts" added

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