Divisors on elliptic Calabi-Yau 4-folds and the superpotential in F-theory, I

Details Divisors on elliptic Calabi-Yau 4-folds and the superpotential in F-theory, I Divisors on elliptic Calabi-Yau 4-folds and the superpotential in F-theory, I

1997-04-10

arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9704008v3

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

Reference added; 34 pages with 7 figures AmS-TeX version 2.1

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0393-0440(98)00004-7

Each smooth elliptic Calabi-Yau 4-fold determines both a three-dimensional physical theory (a compactification of ``M-theory'') and a four-dimensional physical theory (using the ``F-theory'' construction). A key issue in both theories is the calculation of the ``superpotential''of the theory. We propose a systematic approach to identify these divisors, and derive some criteria to determine whether a given divisor indeed contributes. We then apply our techniques in explicit examples, in particular, when the base B of the elliptic fibration is a toric variety or a Fano 3-fold. When B is Fano, we show how divisors contributing to the superpotential are always "exceptional" (in some sense) for the Calabi-Yau 4-fold X. This naturally leads to certain transitions of X, that is birational transformations to a singular model (where the image of D no longer contributes) as well as certain smoothings of the singular model. If a smoothing exists, then the Hodge numbers change. We speculate that divisors contributing to the superpotential are always "exceptional" (in some sense) for X, also in M-theory. In fact we show that this is a consequence of the (log)-minimal model algorithm in dimension 4, which is still conjectural in its generality, but it has been worked out in various cases, among which toric varieties.

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