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Conformal field theories with (0,4) worldsheet supersymmetry and K3 target can be used to compactify the E 8 × E 8 heterotic string to six dimensions in a supersymmetric manner. The data specifying such a model includes an appropriate configuration of 24 gauge instantons in the E 8 × E 8 gauge group to satisfy the constraints of anomaly cancellation. In this note, we compute twining genera — elliptic genera with appropriate insertions of discrete symmetry generators in the trace — for (0,4) theories with various instanton embeddings. We do this by constructing linear sigma models which flow to the desired conformal field theories, and using the techniques of localization. We present several examples of such twining genera which are consistent with a moonshine relating these (0,4) models to the finite simple sporadic group M 24.
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Harrison, S., Kachru, S. & Paquette, N.M. Twining genera of (0,4) supersymmetric sigma models on K3. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 48 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2014)048
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