Kummer surfaces associated with Seiberg-Witten curves
Algebraic Geometry
2015-04-13 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory
Differential Geometry
Abstract
By carrying out a rational transformation on the base curve of the Seiberg-Witten curve for supersymmetric pure -gauge theory, we obtain a family of Jacobian elliptic K3 surfaces of Picard rank 17. The isogeny relating the Seiberg-Witten curve for pure -gauge theory to the one for -gauge theory with massless hypermultiplets extends to define a Nikulin involution on each K3 surface in the family. We show that the desingularization of the quotient of the K3 surface by the involution is isomorphic to a Kummer surface of the Jacobian variety of a curve of genus two. We then derive a relation between the Yukawa coupling associated with the elliptic K3 surface and the Yukawa coupling of pure -gauge theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0912.4774,
title = {Kummer surfaces associated with Seiberg-Witten curves},
author = {Andreas Malmendier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.4774},
year = {2015}
}
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