TY - JOUR
T1 - Some details on the gopakumar-vafa and ooguri-vafa formulas
AU - Dedushenko, Mykola
AU - Witten, Edward
N1 - Funding Information:
Research of EW was supported in part by NSF Grant PHY-1314311. We thank N. Berkovits, J. Bryan, E. Diaconescu, D. Kaplan, J. Maldacena, R. Meyer, V. Mikhaylov, R. Pandharipande, N. Seiberg, H. Ooguri, V. Pestun, C. Vafa, J. Walcher, I. Yaakov, and M. Yamazaki for discussions.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The Gopakumar-Vafa (GV) formula expresses certain couplings that arise in Type IIA compactification to four dimensions on a Calabi-Yau manifold in terms of a counting of BPS states in Mtheory. The couplings in question have applications to topological strings and supersymmetric black holes. In this paper, we reconsider the GV formula, taking a close look at the Schwinger-like computation that was suggested in the original GV work. The goal is to understand the background that must be used in this computation, the role played by the extended supersymmetry of this background, and how the computation gives a holomorphic result though superficially depending only on particle masses. We also examine in a similar way the Ooguri-Vafa (OV) formula, which is an extension of the GV formula to include D4-branes.
AB - The Gopakumar-Vafa (GV) formula expresses certain couplings that arise in Type IIA compactification to four dimensions on a Calabi-Yau manifold in terms of a counting of BPS states in Mtheory. The couplings in question have applications to topological strings and supersymmetric black holes. In this paper, we reconsider the GV formula, taking a close look at the Schwinger-like computation that was suggested in the original GV work. The goal is to understand the background that must be used in this computation, the role played by the extended supersymmetry of this background, and how the computation gives a holomorphic result though superficially depending only on particle masses. We also examine in a similar way the Ooguri-Vafa (OV) formula, which is an extension of the GV formula to include D4-branes.
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U2 - 10.4310/ATMP.2016.v20.n1.a1
DO - 10.4310/ATMP.2016.v20.n1.a1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84982126261
SN - 1095-0761
VL - 20
SP - 1
EP - 132
JO - Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
JF - Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
IS - 1
ER -