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 point group with . 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
35 pages + appendices + supplementary code