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Title: On the elliptic genera of manifolds of Spin(7) holonomy

Abstract

Superstring compactification on a manifold of Spin(7) holonomy gives rise to a 2d worldsheet conformal field theory with an extended supersymmetry algebra. The N=1 superconformal algebra is extended by additional generators of spins 2 and 5/2, and instead of just superconformal symmetry one has a c = 12 realization of the symmetry group SW(3/2,2). In this paper, we compute the characters of this supergroup and decompose the elliptic genus of a general Spin(7) compactification in terms of these characters. Here, we find suggestive relations to various sporadic groups, which are made more precise in a companion paper.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. SLAC, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
  2. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF); John Templeton Foundation
OSTI Identifier:
1331207
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-16862
Journal ID: ISSN 1424-0637; PII: 454
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; PHY-0756174
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Annales Henri Poincare
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 17; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1424-0637
Publisher:
Springer
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS

Citation Formats

Benjamin, Nathan, Harrison, Sarah M., Kachru, Shamit, Paquette, Natalie M., and Whalen, Daniel. On the elliptic genera of manifolds of Spin(7) holonomy. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1007/s00023-015-0454-5.
Benjamin, Nathan, Harrison, Sarah M., Kachru, Shamit, Paquette, Natalie M., & Whalen, Daniel. On the elliptic genera of manifolds of Spin(7) holonomy. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-015-0454-5
Benjamin, Nathan, Harrison, Sarah M., Kachru, Shamit, Paquette, Natalie M., and Whalen, Daniel. 2015. "On the elliptic genera of manifolds of Spin(7) holonomy". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-015-0454-5. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1331207.
@article{osti_1331207,
title = {On the elliptic genera of manifolds of Spin(7) holonomy},
author = {Benjamin, Nathan and Harrison, Sarah M. and Kachru, Shamit and Paquette, Natalie M. and Whalen, Daniel},
abstractNote = {Superstring compactification on a manifold of Spin(7) holonomy gives rise to a 2d worldsheet conformal field theory with an extended supersymmetry algebra. The N=1 superconformal algebra is extended by additional generators of spins 2 and 5/2, and instead of just superconformal symmetry one has a c = 12 realization of the symmetry group SW(3/2,2). In this paper, we compute the characters of this supergroup and decompose the elliptic genus of a general Spin(7) compactification in terms of these characters. Here, we find suggestive relations to various sporadic groups, which are made more precise in a companion paper.},
doi = {10.1007/s00023-015-0454-5},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1331207}, journal = {Annales Henri Poincare},
issn = {1424-0637},
number = 10,
volume = 17,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Wed Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}

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