The c-map as a functor on certain variations of Hodge structure

TL;DR

This paper presents a new natural framework for the supergravity c-map by explicitly relating projective special Kähler manifolds and variations of Hodge structure, extending previous results on isomorphisms and automorphisms.

Contribution

It provides a more explicit description of the c-map using variations of Hodge structure and demonstrates how twist constructions reduce to quotients, extending prior lifting results.

Findings

New explicit description of the c-map via Hodge structures

Reduction of twist construction to a quotient by a discrete group

Extension of isomorphism and automorphism lifting results

Abstract

We give a new manifestly natural presentation of the supergravity c-map. We achieve this by giving a more explicit description of the correspondence between projective special K\"ahler manifolds and variations of Hodge structure, and by demonstrating that the twist construction of Swann, for a certain kind of twist data, reduces to a quotient by a discrete group. We combine these two ideas by showing that variations of Hodge structure give rise to the aforementioned kind of twist data and by then applying the twist realisation of the c-map due to Macia and Swann. This extends previous results regarding the lifting of general isomorphisms along the undeformed c-map, and of infinitesimal automorphisms along the deformed c-map. We show in fact that general isomorphisms can be naturally lifted along the deformed c-map.