Seminar series
Date
Mon, 06 Jun 2011
Time
12:00 - 13:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Magdalena Larfors
Organisation
LMU Munich
In the absence of background fluxes and sources, compactifying string theories on Calabi-Yau three-folds leads to supersymmetric solutions. Turning on fluxes, e.g. to lift the moduli of the compactification, generically forces the three-fold to break the Calabi-Yau conditions, and instead fulfill the weaker geometrical condition of having a reduced structure group. In this talk I will demonstrate that three-dimensional smooth, compact, toric varieties can have reduced structure group, and thus be suitable for flux compactifications of string theory. Since the class of three-dimensional SCTV is large, this is promising for the construction of new, phenomenologically interesting string theory vacua.
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