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Partition functions and elliptic genera from supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-10-27 v1

Abstract

We develop the spacetime aspects of the computation of partition functions for string/M-theory on AdS(3) xM. Subleading corrections to the semi-classical result are included systematically, laying the groundwork for comparison with CFT partition functions via the AdS(3)/CFT(2) correspondence. This leads to a better understanding of the "Farey tail" expansion of Dijkgraaf et. al. from the point of view of bulk physics. Besides clarifying various issues, we also extend the analysis to the N=2 setting with higher derivative effects included.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0607138,
  title  = {Partition functions and elliptic genera from supergravity},
  author = {Per Kraus and Finn Larsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0607138},
  year   = {2010}
}

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34 pages