Prof. Philip Candelas FRS

BA, DPhil

Status

Emeritus

Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Head of the Mathematical Physics Group

Contact form

+44 1865 273521

Research groups

Mathematical Physics

Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG

Highlighted books

Computational algebraic geometry in string and Gauge theory He, Y (2012)

Recent publications

The Universal Geometry of Heterotic Vacua

Candelas, P Ossa, X McOrist, J Sisca, R

Highly symmetric quintic quotients

Candelas, P Mishra, C Fortschritte der Physik / Progress of Physics volume 66 issue 4 (20 Apr 2018)

A metric for heterotic moduli

Candelas, P de la Ossa, X McOrist, J Communications in Mathematical Physics volume 356 issue 2 567-612 (08 Sep 2017)

Hodge numbers for CICYs with symmetries of order divisible by 4

Candelas, P Constantin, A Mishra, C Fortschritte der Physik / Progress of Physics volume 64 issue 6-7 463-509 (06 Jun 2016)

Holomorphic Yukawa couplings in heterotic string theory

Blesneag, S Buchbinder, E Candelas, P Lukas, A JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS issue 1 (26 Jan 2016) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000370440200001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e

Highlighted publications

Max Kreuzer's Contributions to the Study of Calabi-Yau Manifolds

Candelas, P Strings, Gauge Fields, and the Geometry Behind — The Legacy of Maximilian Kreuzer (19 Aug 2012) http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3886v1

An Abundance of K3 Fibrations from Polyhedra with Interchangeable Parts

Candelas, P Constantin, A Skarke, H Communications in Mathematical Physics (19 Jul 2012) http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4792v1

Lines on the Dwork Pencil of Quintic Threefolds

Candelas, P de la Ossa, X van Geemen, B van Straten, D Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (21 Jun 2012) http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.4961v1

The MSSM Spectrum from (0,2)-Deformations of the Heterotic Standard
Embedding

Braun, V Candelas, P Davies, R Donagi, R JHEP volume 1205 127- (05 Dec 2011) http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1097v1

Completing the Web of $Z_3$ - Quotients of Complete Intersection
Calabi-Yau Manifolds

Candelas, P Constantin, A Fortsch.Phys. volume 60 345-369 (09 Oct 2010) http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1878v1

Research interests

String Theory and the geometry and arithmetic of Calabi-Yau manifolds.