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Non-Archimedian integrals and stringy Euler numbers of log terminal pairs

Algebraic Geometry 2016-09-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Using non-Archimedian integration over spaces of arcs of algebraic varieties, we define stringy Euler numbers associated with arbitrary Kawamata log terminal pairs. There is a natural Kawamata log terminal pair corresponding to an algebraic variety V having a regular action of a finite group G. In this situation we show that the stringy Euler number of this pair coincides with the physicists' orbifold Euler number defined by the Dixon-Harvey-Vafa-Witten formula. As an application, we prove a conjecture of Miles Reid on the Euler numbers of crepant desingularizations of Gorenstein quotient singularities.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/9803071,
  title  = {Non-Archimedian integrals and stringy Euler numbers of log terminal pairs},
  author = {Victor V. Batyrev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9803071},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

26 pages, AMS-LaTeX

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