Heterotic models from vector bundles on toric Calabi-Yau manifolds
Abstract
We systematically approach the construction of heterotic E 8 × E 8 Calabi-Yau models, based on compact Calabi-Yau three-folds arising from toric geometry and vector bundles on these manifolds. We focus on a simple class of 101 such three-folds with smooth ambient spaces, on which we perform an exhaustive scan and find all positive monad bundles with SU( N), N = 3; 4; 5 structure groups, subject to the heterotic anomaly cancellation constraint. We find that anomaly-free positive monads exist on only 11 of these toric three-folds with a total number of bundles of about 2000. Only 21 of these models, all of them on three-folds realizable as hypersurfaces in products of projective spaces, allow for three families of quarks and leptons. We also perform a preliminary scan over the much larger class of semi-positive monads which leads to about 44000 bundles with 280 of them satisfying the three-family constraint. These 280 models provide a starting point for heterotic model building based on toric three-folds.
- Publication:
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Journal of High Energy Physics
- Pub Date:
- May 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1007/JHEP05(2010)071
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0911.0865
- Bibcode:
- 2010JHEP...05..071H
- Keywords:
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- Superstrings and Heterotic Strings;
- Superstring Vacua;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 41 pages, 5 figures. A table modified and a table added