Analytic torsion for log-Enriques surfaces and Borcherds product

Abstract

We introduce a holomorphic torsion invariant of log-Enriques surfaces of index two with cyclic quotient singularities of type ¼(1, 1). The moduli space of such log-Enriques surfaces with 𝘬 singular points is a modular variety of orthogonal type associated with a unimodular lattice of signature (2, 10 − 𝘬). We prove that the invariant, viewed as a function of the modular variety, is given by the Petersson norm of an explicit Borcherds product. We note that this torsion invariant is essentially the BCOV invariant in the complex dimension 2. As a consequence, the BCOV invariant in this case is not a birational invariant, unlike the Calabi-Yau case.