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Emergent Spacetime from Modular Motives

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The program of constructing spacetime geometry from string theoretic modular forms is extended to Calabi-Yau varieties of dimensions three and four, as well as higher rank motives. Modular forms on the worldsheet can be constructed from the geometry of spacetime by computing the L–functions associated to omega motives of Calabi-Yau varieties, generated by their holomorphic n−forms via Galois representations. The modular forms that emerge in this way are related to characters of the underlying rational conformal field theory. The converse problem of constructing space from string theory proceeds in the class of diagonal theories by determining the motives associated to modular forms in the category of pure motives with complex multiplication. The emerging picture suggests that the L–function can be viewed as defining a map between the geometric category of motives and the category of conformal field theories on the worldsheet.

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Schimmrigk, R. Emergent Spacetime from Modular Motives. Commun. Math. Phys. 303, 1–30 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-010-1179-4

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