Mordell-Weil Torsion and the Global Structure of Gauge Groups in F-theory

Abstract

We study the global structure of the gauge group $G$ of F-theory compactified on an elliptic fibration $Y$. The global properties of $G$ are encoded in the torsion subgroup of the Mordell-Weil group of rational sections of $Y$. Generalising the Shioda map to torsional sections we construct a specific integer divisor class on $Y$ as a fractional linear combination of the resolution divisors associated with the Cartan subalgebra of $G$. This divisor class can be interpreted as an element of the refined coweight lattice of the gauge group. As a result, the spectrum of admissible matter representations is strongly constrained and the gauge group is non-simply connected. We exemplify our results by a detailed analysis of the general elliptic fibration with Mordell-Weil group ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ and ${\mathbb{Z}}_3$ as well as a further specialization to $\mathbb{Z}\oplus {\mathbb{Z}}_2$. Our analysis exploits the representation of these fibrations as hypersurfaces in toric geometry.

42 pages, 10 figures; v2: references added

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