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arxiv: 1706.02706 · v2 · pith:T2ONMNFXnew · submitted 2017-06-08 · ✦ hep-th · math.NT

BPS jumping loci are automorphic

classification ✦ hep-th math.NT
keywords locijumpingappearautomorphiccompactificationarithmeticattractorsautomorphy
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We show that BPS jumping loci -- loci in the moduli space of string compactifications where the number of BPS states jumps in an upper semi-continuous manner -- naturally appear as Fourier coefficients of (vector space-valued) automorphic forms. For the case of $T^2$ compactification, the jumping loci are governed by a modular form studied by Hirzebruch and Zagier, while the jumping loci in K3 compactification appear in a story developed by Oda and Kudla-Millson in arithmetic geometry. We also comment on some curious related automorphy in the physics of black hole attractors and flux vacua.

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