Bundles over nearly-Kähler homogeneous spaces in heterotic string theory

Mon, 24/10/2011
12:00
Michael Klaput (Oxford) String Theory Seminar Add to calendar L3
String compactifications incorporating non-vanishing H-flux have received increased attention over the past decade for their potential relevance to the moduli stabilization problem. Their internal spaces are in general not Kähler and, therefore, not Calabi-Yau. In the heterotic string an important technical problem is to construct gauge bundles on such spaces. I will present a method of how to explicitly construct gauge bundles over homogeneous nearly-Kähler manifolds of dimension six and discuss some of the arising implications for model building.