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arxiv: hep-th/9608096 · v2 · submitted 1996-08-15 · ✦ hep-th · alg-geom· math.AG

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Elliptic Genera of Symmetric Products and Second Quantized Strings

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In this note we prove an identity that equates the elliptic genus partition function of a supersymmetric sigma model on the N-fold symmetric product $M^N/S_N$ of a manifold M to the partition function of a second quantized string theory on the space $M \times S^1$. The generating function of these elliptic genera is shown to be (almost) an automorphic form for O(3,2,Z). In the context of D-brane dynamics, this result gives a precise computation of the free energy of a gas of D-strings inside a higher-dimensional brane.

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