An algorithmic approach to string phenomenology

DOI10.1142/S0217732310032731MaRDI QIDQ3553552zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yang-Hui He

Publication date 21 April 2010

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.2419

zbMATH Keywords

computational algebraic geometryvector bundlesstandard modelheterotic stringCalabi-Yau compactificationmonad construction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) (4)-folds (14J35) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Abstract: We briefly review the recent programme to construct, systematically and algorithmically, large classes of heterotic vacua, as well as the search for the MSSM therein. Specifically, we outline the monad construction of vector bundles over complete intersection Calabi-Yau threefolds, their classification, stability, equivariant cohomology and subsequent relevance to string phenomenology. It is hoped that this top-down algorithmic approach will isolate special corners in the heterotic landscape.

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• Combinatorics in \({\mathcal N}=1\) heterotic vacua
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• Heterotic models from vector bundles on toric Calabi-Yau manifolds

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Cited in

(10)

• Moduli restriction and chiral matter in heterotic string compactifications
• Improved Algorithms for Finding Consistent Superstrings Based on a New Graph Model
• A simple introduction to Gröbner basis methods in string phenomenology
• The landscape of free fermionic gauge models
• Calabi-Yau geometries: algorithms, databases and physics
• Higgs multiplets in heterotic GUT models
• Brane tilings and reflexive polygons
• STRINGVACUA. A Mathematica package for studying vacuum configurations in string phenomenology
• Constraints on heterotic M-theory from s-cobordism
• Non-standard stringology: algorithms and complexity

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• Macaulay2
• SINGULAR

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