Scanning the skeleton of the 4D F-theory landscape

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2018)111MaRDI QIDQ1745523zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yi-Nan Wang, Washington Taylor

Publication date 17 April 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.11235

zbMATH Keywords

differential and algebraic geometryF-theorysuperstring vacua

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25)

Abstract: Using a one-way Monte Carlo algorithm from several different starting points, we get an approximation to the distribution of toric threefold bases that can be used in four-dimensional F-theory compactification. We separate the threefold bases into "resolvable" ones where the Weierstrass polynomials $(f,g)$ can vanish to order (4,6) or higher on codimension-two loci and the "good" bases where these (4,6) loci are not allowed. A simple estimate suggests that the number of distinct resolvable base geometries exceeds $10^{3000}$, with over $10^{250}$ "good" bases, though the actual numbers are likely much larger. We find that the good bases are concentrated at specific "end points" with special isolated values of $h^{1,1}$ that are bigger than 1,000. These end point bases give Calabi-Yau fourfolds with specific Hodge numbers mirror to elliptic fibrations over simple threefolds. The non-Higgsable gauge groups on the end point bases are almost entirely made of products of $E_8$, $F_4$, $G_2$ and SU(2). Nonetheless, we find a large class of good bases with a single non-Higgsable SU(3). Moreover, by randomly contracting the end point bases, we find many resolvable bases with $h^{1,1}(B)sim50-200$ that cannot be contracted to another smooth threefold base.

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