The Hodge-elliptic genus, spinning BPS states, and black holes
Abstract
We perform a refined count of BPS states in the compactification of M-theory on , keeping track of the information provided by both the and angular momenta in the little group. Mathematically, this four variable counting function may be expressed via the motivic Donaldson-Thomas counts of , simultaneously refining Katz, Klemm, and Pandharipande's motivic Donaldson-Thomas counts on and Oberdieck-Pandharipande's Gromov-Witten counts on . 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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21 pages. Comments welcome!