Non-abelian asymmetric orbifolds with vanishing one-loop vacuum energy
High Energy Physics - Theory
2026-07-16 v1
Abstract
We present a partial classification of four-dimensional, non-supersymmetric Type II toroidal orbifolds with non-abelian point groups of rotations, and vanishing vacuum energy at one loop in string perturbation theory. The classification is complete within a class of such orbifolds with the restriction that the point group only acts on a inside the full internal . By studying their decompactification limits along the leftover , we see that the 17 solutions we find can alternatively be obtained as Scherk--Schwarz compactifications of some parent asymmetric orbifold. Along the way, to ensure the absence of anomalies, we compute bordism groups for a variety of non-abelian crystallographic groups .
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@article{arxiv.2607.15349,
title = {Non-abelian asymmetric orbifolds with vanishing one-loop vacuum energy},
author = {Bernardo Fraiman and Vittorio Larotonda and Michelangelo Tartaglia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.15349},
year = {2026}
}
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46 pages + appendices