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The Hodge-elliptic genus, spinning BPS states, and black holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-08-02 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We perform a refined count of BPS states in the compactification of M-theory on K3×T2K3 \times T^2, keeping track of the information provided by both the SU(2)LSU(2)_L and SU(2)RSU(2)_R angular momenta in the SO(4)SO(4) little group. Mathematically, this four variable counting function may be expressed via the motivic Donaldson-Thomas counts of K3×T2K3 \times T^2, simultaneously refining Katz, Klemm, and Pandharipande's motivic Donaldson-Thomas counts on K3K3 and Oberdieck-Pandharipande's Gromov-Witten counts on K3×T2K3 \times T^2. This provides the first full answer for motivic curve counts of a compact Calabi-Yau threefold. Along the way, we develop a Hodge-elliptic genus for Calabi-Yau manifolds -- a new counting function for BPS states that interpolates between the Hodge polynomial and the elliptic genus of a Calabi-Yau.

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@article{arxiv.1609.02158,
  title  = {The Hodge-elliptic genus, spinning BPS states, and black holes},
  author = {Shamit Kachru and Arnav Tripathy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.02158},
  year   = {2017}
}

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