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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 CP1\mathbb{CP}^1 of the Seiberg-Witten curve for N=2\mathcal{N}=2 supersymmetric pure SU(2)\mathrm{SU}(2)-gauge theory, we obtain a family of Jacobian elliptic K3 surfaces of Picard rank 17. The isogeny relating the Seiberg-Witten curve for pure SU(2)\mathrm{SU}(2)-gauge theory to the one for SU(2)\mathrm{SU}(2)-gauge theory with Nf=2N_f=2 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 SU(2)\mathrm{SU}(2)-gauge theory.

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@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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