Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2002-03-07
JHEP 0204 (2002) 049
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
30 pages. Besides expository improvements, we exclude by hand real fermionic simple roots when they would naively arise
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2002/04/049
It is well known but rather mysterious that root spaces of the $E_k$ Lie groups appear in the second integral cohomology of regular, complex, compact, del Pezzo surfaces. The corresponding groups act on the scalar fields (0-forms) of toroidal compactifications of M theory. Their Borel subgroups are actually subgroups of supergroups of finite dimension over the Grassmann algebra of differential forms on spacetime that have been shown to preserve the self-duality equation obeyed by all bosonic form-fields of the theory. We show here that the corresponding duality superalgebras are nothing but Borcherds superalgebras truncated by the above choice of Grassmann coefficients. The full Borcherds' root lattices are the second integral cohomology of the del Pezzo surfaces. Our choice of simple roots uses the anti-canonical form and its known orthogonal complement. Another result is the determination of del Pezzo surfaces associated to other string and field theory models. Dimensional reduction on $T^k$ corresponds to blow-up of $k$ points in general position with respect to each other. All theories of the Magic triangle that reduce to the $E_n$ sigma model in three dimensions correspond to singular del Pezzo surfaces with $A_{8-n}$ (normal) singularity at a point. The case of type I and heterotic theories if one drops their gauge sector corresponds to non-normal (singular along a curve) del Pezzo's. We comment on previous encounters with Borcherds algebras at the end of the paper.
Henry-Labordere Pierre
Julia Bernard
Paulot Louis
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