Revisiting toric SU(3) structures

DOI10.1002/PROP.201300028zbMATH Open1338.81333arXiv1309.2953OpenAlexW2148231960MaRDI QIDQ2812982FDOQ2812982

Authors: Magdalena Larfors 

Publication date: 13 June 2016

Published in: Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Three-dimensional smooth compact toric varieties (SCTV) admit SU(3) structures, and may thus be relevant for string compactifications, if they have even first Chern class (c1). This condition can be fulfilled by infinitely many SCTVs, including CP3 and CP1 bundles over all two-dimensional SCTVs. We show that as long as c1 is even, toric SU(3) structures can be constructed using a method proposed in arXiv:1005.2194. We perform a systematic study of the parametric freedom of the resulting SU(3) structures, with a particular focus on the metric and the torsion classes. Although metric positivity constrains the SU(3) parameters, we find that every SCTV admits several toric SU(3) structures and that parametric choices can sometimes be made to match requirements of string vacua. We also provide a short review on the constraints that an SU(3) structure must meet to be relevant for four-dimensional, maximally symmetric N=1 or N=0 string vacua.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2953

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zbMATH Keywords

string compactification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

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