1997/04/30 by Eugene Perevalov, Harald Skarke · 32 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Complete intersection #Dynkin diagram #Fibered knot #Fibration #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Monodromy #Polyhedron #Toric variety #Type (biology) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(97)00477-x
published in Nuclear Physics B 505(3), 679-700 (Elsevier BV) · 26 pages, LaTeX2e, 17 figures, references added
arxiv created 1997/05/12 · openalex publication_date 1997/11/01 · arxiv updated 2014/11/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We explain the observation by Candelas and Font that the Dynkin diagrams of nonabelian gauge groups occurring in type IIA and F-theory can be read off from the polyhedron Δ^* that provides the toric description of the Calabi-Yau manifold used for compacification. We show how the intersection pattern of toric divisors corresponding to the degeneration of elliptic fibers follows the ADE classification of singularities and the Kodaira classification of degenerations. We treat in detail the cases of elliptic K3 surfaces and K3 fibered threefolds where the fiber is again elliptic. We also explain how even the occurrence of monodromy and non-simply laced groups in the latter case is visible in the toric picture. These methods also work in the fourfold case.