Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-10-22
JHEP 0101:002,2001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
harvmac, 14 pp., v2. references added, typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2001/01/002
We study BPS states which arise in compactifications of M-theory on Calabi-Yau manifolds. In particular, we are interested in the spectrum of the particles obtained by wrapping M2-brane on a two-cycle in the CY manifold X. We compute the Euler characteristics of the moduli space of genus zero curves which land in a holomorphic four-cycle $S \subset X$. We use M. Kontsevich's method which reduces the problem to summing over trees and observe the discrepancy with the predictions of local mirror symmetry. We then turn this discrepancy into a supporting evidence in favor of existence of extra moduli of M2-branes which consists of the choice of a flat U(1) connection recently suggested by C. Vafa and partially confirm this by counting of the arbitrary genus curves of bi-degree (2,n) in $\IP^1 \times \IP^1$ (this part has been done together with Barak Kol). We also make a conjecture concerning the counting of higher genus curves using second quantized Penner model and discuss possible applications to the string theory of two-dimensional QCD.
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