On the Cosmological Constant for the Chiral Superstring Measure Samuel Grushevsky and Riccardo Salvati Manni
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Abstract. Combining certain identities for modular forms due to Igusa with Schottky-Jung relations, we study the cosmological constant for the recently proposed ansatz for the chiral superstring measure in genus 5. The vanishing of this cosmological constant turns out to be equivalent to the long-conjectured vanishing of a certain explicit modular form of genus 5 on the moduli of curves M5, and we disprove this conjecture, thus showing that the cosmological constant for the proposed ansatz does not vanish identically. We also give an expression for the cosmological constant for the proposed ansatz that should hold for any genus if certain generalized Schottky-Jung identities hold.
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