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The M5-brane on K3 and del Pezzo's and multi-loop string amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-02-03 v2

Abstract

We study the BPS spectrum of Little String Theory for bound states of M5-branes wrapped on six manifold of product topology M4×Σ2M_4\times\Sigma_2 and the apparence of multi-loop θ\theta-functions in a supersymmetric index calculation. We find a total reconstruction of the g-loop heterotic contribution in the case of a double K3 M-theory compactification. Moreover, we consider total wrapping of M5-branes on del Pezzo surfaces BkB_k and, by studying the relevant amplitude, we notice the arising of θ\theta-functions relative to BPS strings on Tk1T^{k-1}, i.e. membranes on TkT^k. This happens because of beautiful relations between four dimensional SYM theories and CFTs in two dimensions and seems to be linked to a duality recently observed by A.Iqbal, A.Neitzke and C.Vafa in.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0111126,
  title  = {The M5-brane on K3 and del Pezzo's and multi-loop string amplitudes},
  author = {G. Bonelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0111126},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

1+14 pages; v2: misprints corrected, clarifications and one reference added

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