English

Hadamard products and BPS networks

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-12-25 v2 Algebraic Geometry Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We study examples of fourth-order Picard-Fuchs operators that are Hadamard products of two second-order Picard-Fuchs operators. Each second-order Picard-Fuchs operator is associated with a family of elliptic curves, and the Hadamard product computes period integrals on the fibred product of the two elliptic surfaces. We construct 3-cycles on this geometry as the union of 2-cycles in the fibre over contours on the base. We then use the special Lagrangian condition to constrain the contours on the base. This leads to a construction that is reminiscent of spectral networks and exponential networks that have previously appeared in string theory literature.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2311.08683,
  title  = {Hadamard products and BPS networks},
  author = {Mohamed Elmi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.08683},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

37 pages, 9 figures, some typos corrected

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