Liouville Theory and Elliptic Genera
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The structure and modular properties of N = 4 superconformal characters are reviewed and exploited, in an attempt to construct elliptic genera-like functions by decompactifying K3. The construction is tested against expressions obtained in the context of strings propagating in background ALE spaces of type AN−1, using the underlying superconformal theory N = 2 minimal ⊗ N = 2 Liouville.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008