Mysterious duality and helical line bundles on del Pezzo surfaces

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contents Mysterious duality is a relationship, described by Vafa in 2000, between $\frac12$-BPS branes in Type II supergravity in dimension $D=d+2$ and rational curves on del Pezzo surfaces of degree $d$. We show that both sides of this correspondence can be linked to a $\mathbb{Z}_d$ grading of the Lie algebra $E_8$. In addition, we show that the relevant rational curves correspond to `helical' line bundles, that is, line bundles that can appear in a helix on the del Pezzo surface.
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spellingShingle Mysterious duality and helical line bundles on del Pezzo surfaces
King, Alastair
Algebraic Geometry
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Mysterious duality is a relationship, described by Vafa in 2000, between $\frac12$-BPS branes in Type II supergravity in dimension $D=d+2$ and rational curves on del Pezzo surfaces of degree $d$. We show that both sides of this correspondence can be linked to a $\mathbb{Z}_d$ grading of the Lie algebra $E_8$. In addition, we show that the relevant rational curves correspond to `helical' line bundles, that is, line bundles that can appear in a helix on the del Pezzo surface.
title Mysterious duality and helical line bundles on del Pezzo surfaces
topic Algebraic Geometry
14F26
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10169