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Asymmetric orbifolds with vanishing one-loop vacuum energy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-04-23 v3

Abstract

We present a systematic study of non-supersymmetric type II toroidal asymmetric orbifolds with vanishing vacuum energy at one-loop in string perturbation theory. These are engineered through the conservation of a supercharge-like operator in each individual sector in the orbifold sum, despite the overall explicit breaking of spacetime SUSY. We provide a full classification of such orbifolds with finite Abelian point-group, which can only admit Zk×Zk\mathbb{Z}_k \times \mathbb{Z}_k point group with k=2,3,4k=2,3,4. We present detailed constructions, alongside other examples with non-Abelian point group. For some of these models, it is possible that this cancellation persists at higher loops.

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@article{arxiv.2602.07113,
  title  = {Asymmetric orbifolds with vanishing one-loop vacuum energy},
  author = {Vittorio Larotonda and Miguel Montero and Michelangelo Tartaglia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.07113},
  year   = {2026}
}

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35 pages + appendices + supplementary code

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