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Stringy Hirzebruch classes of Weierstrass fibrations

Algebraic Geometry 2018-10-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A Weierstrass fibration is an elliptic fibration YBY\to B whose total space YY may be given by a global Weierstrass equation in a P2\mathbb{P}^2-bundle over BB. In this note, we compute stringy Hirzebruch classes of singular Weierstrass fibrations associated with constructing non-Abelian gauge theories in FF-theory. For each Weierstrass fibration YBY\to B we then derive a generating function χystr(Y;t)\chi^{\text{str}}_y(Y;t), whose degree-dd coefficient encodes the stringy χy\chi_y-genus of YBY\to B over an unspecified base of dimension dd, solely in terms of invariants of the base. To facilitate our computations, we prove a formula for general characteristic classes of blowups along (possibly singular) complete intersections.

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@article{arxiv.1810.10150,
  title  = {Stringy Hirzebruch classes of Weierstrass fibrations},
  author = {James Fullwood and Mark van Hoeij},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.10150},
  year   = {2018}
}

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