dc.contributor.author | Minahan, J. A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Nemeschansky, D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Vafa, C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Warner, N. P. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-22T18:36:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1998 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Minahan, J.A., D. Nemeschansky, C. Vafa, and N.P. Warner. 1998. “E-Strings and N = 4 Topological Yang-Mills Theories.” Nuclear Physics B 527 (3): 581–623. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00426-x. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0169-6823 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0550-3213 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1873-1562 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41385078 | * |
dc.description.abstract | We study certain properties of six-dimensional tensionless E-strings (arising from zero size E-8 instantons). In particular we show that n E-strings form a bound string which carries an E-8 level-n current algebra as well as a left-over conformal system with c = 12n - 4 - (248n/n + 30), whose characters can be computed. Moreover we show that the characters of the n-string bound state are captured by N = 4 U(n) topological Yang-Mills theory on 1/2K3. This relation not only illuminates certain aspects of E-strings but can also be used to shed light on the properties of N = 4 topological Yang-Mills theories on manifolds with b(2)(+) = 1. In particular the E-string partition functions, which can be computed using local mirror symmetry on a Calabi-Yau threefold, give the Euler characteristics of the Yang-Mills instanton moduli space on 1/2K3. Moreover, the partition functions are determined by a gap condition combined with a simple recurrence relation which has its origins in a holomorphic anomaly that has been conjectured to exist for N = 4 topological Yang-Mills on manifolds with b(2)(+) = 1 and is also related to the holomorphic anomaly for higher genus topological strings on Calabi-Yau threefolds. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | |
dash.license | LAA | |
dc.title | E-strings and N = 4 topological Yang-Mills theories | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dc.description.version | Accepted Manuscript | |
dc.relation.journal | Nuclear Physics, B | |
dash.depositing.author | Vafa, C.::4e237a95963132b39101a21b3da5ddb2::600 | |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-22T18:36:25Z | |
dash.workflow.comments | 1Science Serial ID 69844 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00426-X | |
dash.source.volume | 527;3 | |
dash.source.page | 581-623 | |