On possible Chern classes of stable bundles on Calabi-Yau threefolds

Abstract: Supersymmetric heterotic string models, built from a Calabi-Yau threefold

X

endowed with a stable vector bundle

V

, usually lead to an anomaly mismatch between

c_{2} (V)

and

c_{2} (X)

; this leads to the question whether the difference can be realized by a further bundle in the hidden sector. In math.AG/0604597 a conjecture is stated which gives sufficient conditions on cohomology classes on

X

to be realized as the Chern classes of a stable reflexive sheaf

V

; a weak version of this conjecture predicts the existence of such a

V

if

c_{2} (V)

is of a certain form. In this note we prove that on elliptically fibered

X

infinitely many cohomology classes

exist which are of this form and for each of them a stable SU(n) vector bundle with

c = c_{2} (V)

exists.

Review text

In [\textit{M. R. Douglas, R. Reinbacher} and \textit{S.-T. Yau}, ``Branes, bundles and attractors: Bogomolov and beyond, \url{arXiv:math/0604597}] a conjecture is proposed regarding conditions on cohomology classes on a Calabi-Yau 3-fold \(X\) ensuring that they be realized as the Chern classes of a stable reflexive sheaf \(V\). A weaker form of the conjecture is the following: let \(c \in H^4(X,\mathbf Z)\) be an integer multiple of \( H^2 + c_2(X) /24\); then \(c=c_2(V)\) for a stable \(\mathrm{SU}(n)\)-bundle on \(X\). In this note the authors test this weaker conjecture on elliptic Calabi-Yau 3-folds. They show that on these manifolds infinitely many cohomology classes \(c \in H^4(X,\mathbf Z)\) exist, which satisfy the conditions in the conjecture and for each of them a stable \(\mathrm{SU}(n)\) vector bundle with \(c=c_{2}(V)\) exists.

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