From strings in 6d to strings in 5d

Babak Haghighat
2016 Journal of High Energy Physics  
We show how recent progress in computing elliptic genera of strings in six dimensions can be used to obtain expressions for elliptic genera of strings in five-dimensional field theories which have a six-dimensional parent. We further connect our results to recent mathematical results about sheaf counting on ruled surfaces.
doi:10.1007/jhep01(2016)062 fatcat:yz77vnsfvzdpharqw73qrh77lu