Enhanced Gauge Symmetry in Type II and F-Theory Compactifications: Dynkin Diagrams from Polyhedra

Details Enhanced Gauge Symmetry in Type II and F-Theory Compactifications: Dynkin Diagrams from Polyhedra Enhanced Gauge Symmetry in Type II and F-Theory Compactifications: Dynkin Diagrams from Polyhedra

1997-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9704129v2

Nucl.Phys. B505 (1997) 679-700

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

26 pages, LaTeX2e, 17 figures, references added

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00477-X

We explain the observation by Candelas and Font that the Dynkin diagrams of nonabelian gauge groups occurring in type IIA and F-theory can be read off from the polyhedron $\Delta^*$ that provides the toric description of the Calabi-Yau manifold used for compacification. We show how the intersection pattern of toric divisors corresponding to the degeneration of elliptic fibers follows the ADE classification of singularities and the Kodaira classification of degenerations. We treat in detail the cases of elliptic K3 surfaces and K3 fibered threefolds where the fiber is again elliptic. We also explain how even the occurrence of monodromy and non-simply laced groups in the latter case is visible in the toric picture. These methods also work in the fourfold case.

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