The M5-Brane Elliptic Genus: Modularity and BPS States
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-09-17 v1
Abstract
The modified elliptic genus for an M5-brane wrapped on a four-cycle of a Calabi-Yau threefold encodes the degeneracies of an infinite set of BPS states in four dimensions. By holomorphy and modular invariance, it can be determined completely from the knowledge of a finite set of such BPS states. We show the feasibility of such a computation and determine the exact modified elliptic genus for an M5-brane wrapping a hyperplane section of the quintic threefold.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0607010,
title = {The M5-Brane Elliptic Genus: Modularity and BPS States},
author = {Davide Gaiotto and Andrew Strominger and Xi Yin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0607010},
year = {2009}
}
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21 pages