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New large volume Calabi-Yau threefolds

Altman, R., He, Y. ORCID: 0000-0002-0787-8380, Jejjala, V. & Nelson, B. D. (2018). New large volume Calabi-Yau threefolds. Physical Review D, 97(4), article number 046003. doi: 10.1103/physrevd.97.046003

Abstract

In previous work, we have commenced the task of unpacking the 473 800 776 reflexive polyhedra by Kreuzer and Skarke into a database of Calabi-Yau threefolds [R. Altman et al. J. High Energy Phys. 02 (2015) 158.] (see www.rossealtman.com). In this paper, following a pedagogical introduction, we present a new algorithm to isolate Swiss cheese solutions characterized by “holes,” or small 4-cycles, descending from the toric divisors inherent to the original four dimensional reflexive polyhedra. Implementing these methods, we find 2268 explicit Swiss cheese manifolds, over half of which have h1,1=6. Many of our solutions have multiple large cycles. Such Swiss cheese geometries facilitate moduli stabilization in string compactifications and provide flat directions for cosmological inflation.

Publication Type: Article
Additional Information: Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP.
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Departments: School of Science & Technology > Mathematics
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