Affine Kac-Moody algebras, CHL strings and the classification of tops

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Bouchard, Vincent [1 ]
Skarke, Harald [1 ]
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[1] Univ Oxford, Math Inst, Oxford OX1 3LB, England
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Candelas and Font introduced the notion of a 'top' as half of a three dimensional reflexive polytope and noticed that Dynkin diagrams of enhanced gauge groups in string theory can be read off from them. We classify all tops satisfying a generalized definition as a lattice polytope with one facet containing the origin and the other facets at distance one from the origin. These objects torically encode the local geometry of a degeneration of an elliptic fibration. We give a prescription for assigning an affine, possibly twisted Kac-Moody algebra to any such top (and more generally to any elliptic fibration structure) in a precise way that involves the lengths of simple roots and the coefficients of null roots. Tops related to twisted Kac-Moody algebras can be used to construct string compactifications with reduced rank of the gauge group.
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