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Exploring a new peak in the heterotic landscape

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We study the existence of realistic heterotic vacua on a new Abelian surface fibered Calabi-Yau threefold X with Z_8 x Z_8 fundamental group. Our main result is a no-go theorem, which says that (under mild assumptions) there is no stable holomorphic vector bundle on X satisfying the constraints required by global consistency of the heterotic vacuum and phenomenology. To prove the theorem we explore in some detail the Fourier-Mukai transform of vector bundles on Abelian surface fibrations.

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@article{arxiv.0811.1242,
  title  = {Exploring a new peak in the heterotic landscape},
  author = {Anthony Bak and Vincent Bouchard and Ron Donagi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.1242},
  year   = {2014}
}

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35 pages, v2: minor modifications in section 4