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Codimension-two matter and codimension-three Yukawa dictionary
Adopted local F-theory matter and interaction dictionary for a specified resolved model with a stated complex threefold base, codimension-one gauge divisor, resolution chamber, selected fibral curves, and effective-field-theory regime. It does not count the full vectorlike spectrum, assert resolution existence, or establish nonzero interactions. The wrapped-M2 physical interpretation remains conditional on the present draft classical M2 action interface and its draft CJS superspace prerequisites; their draft status supplies no independent acceptance.
Postulate
Adopt the following conditional dictionary for a specified resolved F-theory model over a smooth complex threefold . Fix one resolution chamber as in Crepant resolution and matter surface, where is a specified smooth projective crepant resolution and is a specified collection of irreducible fiber-curve components. Let be the model's specified codimension-one gauge divisor. A matter curve is the exact fiber-change datum of the same supplier: a specified reduced irreducible closed curve of complex dimension one for which the geometric generic resolved fibers over the generic points of and , after base change along any chosen pair of -embeddings of their residue-field algebraic closures into a common algebraically closed field, are nonisomorphic. A selected curve family supplies a matter surface only as the supplier's specified reduced irreducible surface with a proper flat map , nonempty pure one-dimensional geometric fibers, and geometric generic fiber isomorphic to ; these are hypotheses in an application, not consequences of this postulate. Codimension here is complex codimension, so has codimension two in .
The codimension-one gauge divisor and complex Lie algebra must be fixed in the same model under the restricted transverse-slice and local-minimal-Weierstrass conditions of 7-brane monodromy and codimension-one gauge-algebra dictionary. A selected fibral curve is a specified irreducible rational component in the resolved fiber over the generic point of a matter curve. For a chosen orientation of its wrapped-M2 state, write for the resulting oriented curve class. With the source convention of Weigand, §5.2, equation (5.8), its candidate Cartan weight vector is
where are the specified resolution divisors associated with the simple Cartan generators. Reversing the M2 orientation replaces and by their negatives. These are candidate weights for the selected modes; the geometry and the action interface do not derive which oriented states occur in the effective theory. Distinct resolution chambers or selected curve components are distinct data.
A codimension-three enhancement point is an isolated point of where specified enhancement loci meet and the resolved fiber further splits or degenerates. A finite-dimensional complex representation of the supplied complex gauge Lie algebra is a pair , where is a finite-dimensional complex vector space and is a Lie-algebra homomorphism. A gauge-invariant trilinear in this convention is a nonzero -equivariant map , with the trivial action on ; the actual global gauge group and the descent of representations to it remain separate model data. Where the chosen four-dimensional theory is , let be a complex coordinate patch of chiral field and moduli values and let be its holomorphic superpotential. A holomorphic Yukawa coupling is the coefficient of a cubic Taylor term in , where are chiral fields and are chiral moduli. A codimension-three point with an allowed trilinear is only a candidate locus: it does not establish localized modes, a nonzero coefficient, a numerical Yukawa value, or a complete zero-mode spectrum.
The physical wrapped-M2 interpretation is conditional on the classical action interface in [L1]. That current carrier is present as a draft with a local format precheck pass, which is not independent acceptance, and its two direct CJS postulate prerequisites are also drafts; the component-action precheck is pending and the superspace-constraints precheck passes. The action definition supplies no derivation of oriented membrane states, a complete spectrum, or nonzero couplings.
Postulate references
Facts & Assumptions
Given: One explicitly specified resolved elliptic fourfold over a smooth complex threefold, a chosen resolution chamber, the generic codimension-one fiber data, and the candidate fibral curves and effective-theory fields under discussion.
A smooth projective crepant resolution, flatness of each selected curve family, and existence of a matter surface are hypotheses in each application. Crepant resolution and matter surface does not prove resolution existence or uniqueness.
Crepant resolution and matter surface: “A matter curve is one such specified ; is typically a chosen discriminant component.” The preceding supplier clause requires a reduced irreducible curve in the chosen divisor where the geometric generic fiber changes. Its selected fibral-curve family must be proper flat of relative dimension one with geometric generic fiber .
7-brane monodromy and codimension-one gauge-algebra dictionary: “The geometric Kodaira-type clause is used only when the transverse complex-curve pullback satisfies the exact carrier hypotheses.” The supplier's dictionary identifies a Lie algebra only after the stated local-model and splitness/monodromy data; it supplies no universal local-minimal-model existence result.
Weigand, §5.2, equation (5.8), defines the Cartan weight components of a selected oriented split-fiber curve by ; equation (5.12) keeps the same sign for the completed weight vector. Reversing the curve orientation gives the negative weight and the conjugate representation (equations (5.13)–(5.14)). This postulate adopts that intersection convention.
The current item M2 Brane Worldvolume Action is placed on the st-m-theory-foundations page and has status draft with a local format precheck pass, which is not independent acceptance. For a smooth embedding of a closed oriented three-manifold with nondegenerate Lorentzian induced metric , it defines the classical bosonic action
with independent positive tension and the source convention . In units, are dimensionless, target coordinates are length-valued with dimensionless metric components, has units of , and the normalization gives units of . Its Green–Schwarz completion uses a smooth superembedding into an on-shell CJS superspace and the pulled-back supervielbein. Its direct prerequisites, post-eleven-dimensional-cjs-supergravity-action and post-m2-cjs-superspace-constraints, are both draft postulates; the component-action precheck is pending and the superspace-constraints precheck passes. This is a current source definition, not an accepted premise or a derivation of oriented localized states, a complete spectrum, or nonzero couplings.
Status
This is an adopted physical postulate, not a theorem that experiments or the cited papers prove for every compactification. The local source treatments support the conditional enhancement dictionary and the chamber-specific example on the companion page; source statements do not establish resolution-independent matter, total vectorlike multiplicities, or nonzero Yukawa coefficients. The M2 action item is present as a draft with a local format precheck pass, which is not independent acceptance, and its two direct CJS postulate prerequisites are drafts; presence does not establish acceptance. The wrapped-M2 interpretation remains conditional and does not derive oriented states from the action alone.