K3 metrics from little string theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2020-10-13 v3 Differential Geometry
Abstract
Certain six-dimensional (1,0) supersymmetric little string theories, when compactified on , have moduli spaces of vacua given by smooth K3 surfaces. Using ideas of Gaiotto-Moore-Neitzke, we show that this provides a systematic procedure for determining the Ricci-flat metric on a smooth K3 surface in terms of BPS degeneracies of (compactified) little string theories.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.10540,
title = {K3 metrics from little string theory},
author = {Shamit Kachru and Arnav Tripathy and Max Zimet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.10540},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
36 pages. v2: added references. v3: updated joke