A main issue in superstring theory are the superstring measures. D'Hoker and Phong showed that for genus two these reduce to measures on the moduli space of curves which are the product of modular forms of weight eight and the bosonic measure. They also suggested a generalisation to higher genus. We showed that their approach works, with a minor modification, in genus three and we announced a positive result also in genus four. Here we give the modular form in genus four explicitly. Recently, S. Grushevsky published this result as part of a more general approach.

Genus four superstring measures / S.L. Cacciatori, F. Dalla Piazza, L. Van Geemen. - In: LETTERS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS. - ISSN 0377-9017. - 85:2-3(2008), pp. 185-193.

Genus four superstring measures

L. Van Geemen
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2008

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A main issue in superstring theory are the superstring measures. D'Hoker and Phong showed that for genus two these reduce to measures on the moduli space of curves which are the product of modular forms of weight eight and the bosonic measure. They also suggested a generalisation to higher genus. We showed that their approach works, with a minor modification, in genus three and we announced a positive result also in genus four. Here we give the modular form in genus four explicitly. Recently, S. Grushevsky published this result as part of a more general approach.
Settore MAT/03 - Geometria
2008
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