Supersymmetric Flux Compactifications and Calabi-Yau Modularity

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Authors Shamit Kachru, Richard Nally, Wenzhe Yang

Publication date 16 January 2020

Abstract: Flux compactification of IIB string theory associates special points in Calabi-Yau moduli space to choices of (pairs of) integral three-form fluxes. In this paper, we propose that supersymmetric flux vacua are modular. That is, to a supersymmetric flux vacuum arising in a variety defined over $mathbbQ$, we associate a two-dimensional Galois representation that we conjecture to be modular. We provide numerical evidence for our conjecture by examining flux vacua arising on the octic hypersurface in $mathbb{P}^4(1,1,2,2,2)$.

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