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Prepotentials from Symmetric Products

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v3

Abstract

We investigate the prepotential that describes certain F^4 couplings in eight dimensional string compactifications, and show how they can be computed from the solutions of inhomogenous differential equations. These appear to have the form of the Picard-Fuchs equations of a fibration of Sym^2(K3) over P^1. Our findings give support to the conjecture that the relevant geometry which underlies these couplings is given by a five-fold.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9901162,
  title  = {Prepotentials from Symmetric Products},
  author = {W. Lerche and S. Stieberger and N. P. Warner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9901162},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

19p, harvmac; One sign in eq. (A.2) changed