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Rational points in the 6d supergravity landscape and simple current extensions

Guglielmo Lockhart , Yann Proto This is my paper

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Rationality of BPS string worldsheet theories uniquely fixes the elliptic genus and determines the global form of six-dimensional gauge groups in models without tensor multiplets.

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The paper examines a class of six-dimensional supergravity theories without tensor multiplets where primitive BPS strings are governed by rational superconformal field theories. It shows that rationality constraints are nontrivially satisfied in each model and uniquely determine the elliptic genus of the strings, serving as a new consistency criterion for these candidate quantum gravity theories. The left-moving Kac-Moody-Virasoro algebra is extended by higher-spin currents from simple current extensions, corresponding to discrete symmetries of the 2d SCFT, which in turn fix the global structure of the six-dimensional gauge groups. A sympathetic reader would care because these models lack standard geometric realizations in F-theory yet this method offers an effective probe of their consistency through two-dimensional rationality constraints.

Core claim

In each model, the rationality constraints are nontrivially satisfied and uniquely determine the elliptic genus of the strings, providing a new consistency criterion satisfied by this exotic class of candidate quantum gravity theories. In all cases, the left-moving Kac-Moody-Virasoro algebra on the string worldsheet is extended by higher-spin currents, corresponding to discrete symmetries of the 2d SCFT. This allows determination of the global form of the six-dimensional gauge group for all the members of this class of models.

What carries the argument

Rationality constraints of the rational SCFT describing primitive BPS strings, which uniquely fix the elliptic genus and enable simple current extensions of the left-moving Kac-Moody-Virasoro algebra to determine the global form of the six-dimensional gauge group.

Load-bearing premise

The primitive BPS strings in these 6d supergravity models without tensor multiplets are described by a rational superconformal field theory whose rationality imposes severe constraints on the supersymmetric spectrum.

What would settle it

An independent computation of the elliptic genus for one of these models that fails to match the value fixed by the rationality constraints, or an independent determination of the global gauge group structure that conflicts with the one implied by the higher-spin currents.

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We investigate a recently identified class of six-dimensional supergravities without tensor multiplets whose primitive BPS strings are described by a rational superconformal field theory. Rationality imposes severe constraints on the supersymmetric spectrum of their BPS strings and provides an effective way to study this class of models, despite the absence of a conventional geometric realization within F-theory. We find that, in each model, the rationality constraints are nontrivially satisfied and uniquely determine the elliptic genus of the strings, providing a new consistency criterion satisfied by this exotic class of candidate quantum gravity theories. In all cases, the left-moving Kac-Moody-Virasoro algebra on the string worldsheet is extended by higher-spin currents, corresponding to discrete symmetries of the 2d SCFT. This allows us to determine the global form of the six-dimensional gauge group for all the members of this class of models.

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Summary. The manuscript investigates a class of six-dimensional supergravities without tensor multiplets in which the primitive BPS strings are described by rational superconformal field theories. Rationality of these 2d SCFTs is shown to impose severe constraints on the supersymmetric spectrum; the authors report that these constraints are nontrivially satisfied in every model of the class and uniquely fix the elliptic genus, thereby supplying a new consistency criterion. The left-moving Kac-Moody-Virasoro algebra is extended by higher-spin currents associated with discrete symmetries of the SCFT; these extensions are used to determine the global form of the six-dimensional gauge group for all members of the class.

Significance. If the central results hold, the work supplies a concrete new consistency test for exotic 6d supergravity models that lack conventional F-theory realizations. By exploiting rationality of the BPS-string SCFTs the authors obtain strong, parameter-free constraints on the spectrum and a determination of the global gauge-group structure via simple-current extensions. The approach is technically economical and directly addresses the absence of geometric data, thereby enlarging the toolkit available for exploring the 6d landscape.

major comments (1)
  1. [§2] §2 and the abstract: the claim that the BPS strings are described by rational SCFTs is load-bearing for the entire consistency argument. An explicit, independent cross-check is needed that the central charge, KM levels, and anomaly polynomial computed directly from the 6d gauge data and spectrum match the corresponding invariants of the rational SCFT before the rationality constraints are imposed; without this matching the satisfaction of the constraints risks being tautological rather than a nontrivial test.
minor comments (3)
  1. [§3] The notation for the elliptic genus and its decomposition into characters should be introduced with a single, self-contained definition early in §3 rather than piecemeal.
  2. [Table 1] Table 1 would be clearer if the columns for the higher-spin current charges were labeled with the corresponding simple-current labels used in the text.
  3. A short paragraph comparing the obtained global gauge-group forms with any existing literature on discrete symmetries in 6d supergravity would help readers assess novelty.

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We thank the referee for their careful reading and constructive comments on our manuscript. We address the major comment below and have revised the paper to incorporate an explicit cross-check as requested.

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  1. Referee: [§2] §2 and the abstract: the claim that the BPS strings are described by rational SCFTs is load-bearing for the entire consistency argument. An explicit, independent cross-check is needed that the central charge, KM levels, and anomaly polynomial computed directly from the 6d gauge data and spectrum match the corresponding invariants of the rational SCFT before the rationality constraints are imposed; without this matching the satisfaction of the constraints risks being tautological rather than a nontrivial test.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit, independent cross-check strengthens the argument and removes any risk of tautology. While the manuscript derives the SCFT data (central charge, levels, and anomaly coefficients) from the 6d gauge group, matter spectrum, and anomaly cancellation conditions in §2, we acknowledge that a direct side-by-side comparison was not tabulated. In the revised manuscript we have added a new subsection (2.1) that computes these invariants explicitly from the 6d data for each model in the class using the standard worldsheet formulas, then matches them to the known values for the corresponding rational SCFTs (including their simple-current extensions) prior to imposing rationality. This matching is shown in a new table and confirms consistency of the setup independently of the rationality constraints, which are applied only afterward. We have also updated the abstract to reference this matching. revision: yes

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No significant circularity; derivation applies assumed rationality properties as consistency check

full rationale

The paper posits that a recently identified class of tensor-free 6d supergravities has primitive BPS strings described by rational SCFTs, then reports that rationality constraints are nontrivially satisfied and fix the elliptic genus for each model. This is framed as providing a new consistency criterion rather than deriving the rationality or the genus from 6d data fits. No quoted equations or self-citations reduce the central claim to a definition, a fitted parameter renamed as prediction, or a load-bearing self-citation chain. The steps remain independent of the target result under the stated assumptions, making the analysis self-contained against external benchmarks of rationality in 2d SCFTs.

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The central claim rests on the domain assumption that BPS strings in these models are described by rational SCFTs and that rationality imposes severe, uniquely determining constraints on the spectrum; no free parameters or invented entities are explicitly introduced in the abstract.

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  • domain assumption BPS strings in the 6d supergravity models without tensor multiplets are described by rational superconformal field theories.
    Invoked in the second sentence of the abstract as the starting point for applying rationality constraints.
  • domain assumption Rationality imposes severe constraints on the supersymmetric spectrum of the BPS strings.
    Stated directly in the abstract as the mechanism that allows unique determination of the elliptic genus.

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