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arxiv: 0912.4774 · v3 · pith:GILEDZ4Nnew · submitted 2009-12-24 · 🧮 math.AG · hep-th· math.DG

Kummer surfaces associated with Seiberg-Witten curves

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By carrying out a rational transformation on the base curve $\mathbb{CP}^1$ of the Seiberg-Witten curve for $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric pure $\mathrm{SU}(2)$-gauge theory, we obtain a family of Jacobian elliptic K3 surfaces of Picard rank 17. The isogeny relating the Seiberg-Witten curve for pure $\mathrm{SU}(2)$-gauge theory to the one for $\mathrm{SU}(2)$-gauge theory with $N_f=2$ massless hypermultiplets extends to define a Nikulin involution on each K3 surface in the family. We show that the desingularization of the quotient of the K3 surface by the involution is isomorphic to a Kummer surface of the Jacobian variety of a curve of genus two. We then derive a relation between the Yukawa coupling associated with the elliptic K3 surface and the Yukawa coupling of pure $\mathrm{SU}(2)$-gauge theory.

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