On the equivalence of the two most favoured Calabi-Yau compactifications

DOI10.1007/BF01221400MaRDI QIDQ1103215zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brian R. Greene, Kelley H. Kirklin

Publication date 1987

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01221400

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau manifoldselementary particlesheterotic superstring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Review text

We discuss the two known multiply connected Calabi-Yau manifolds which give rise to three generations of elementary particles when chosen as the classical vacuum configuration of the \(E_ 8\times E_ 8\) heterotic superstring. It is shown that these two manifolds are diffeomorphic.

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