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Distinguishing elliptic fibrations with AI

He, Y. ORCID: 0000-0002-0787-8380 & Lee, S-J. (2019). Distinguishing elliptic fibrations with AI. Physics Letters B, 798, article number 134889. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134889

Abstract

We use the latest techniques in machine-learning to study whether from the landscape of Calabi-Yau manifolds one can distinguish elliptically fibred ones. Using the dataset of complete intersections in products of projective spaces (CICY3 and CICY4, totalling about a million manifolds) as a concrete playground, we find that a relatively simple neural network with forward-feeding multi-layers can very efficiently distinguish the elliptic fibrations, much more so than using the traditional methods of manipulating the defining equations. We cross-check with control cases to ensure that the AI is not randomly guessing and is indeed identifying an inherent structure. Our result should prove useful in F-theory and string model building as well as in pure algebraic geometry.

Publication Type: Article
Additional Information: ©2019 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC-BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics
Q Science > QC Physics
Departments: School of Science & Technology > Mathematics
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