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On possible Chern Classes of stable Bundles on Calabi-Yau threefolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-05-25 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Supersymmetric heterotic string models, built from a Calabi-Yau threefold XX endowed with a stable vector bundle VV, usually lead to an anomaly mismatch between c2(V)c_2(V) and c2(X)c_2(X); this leads to the question whether the difference can be realized by a further bundle in the hidden sector. In math.AG/0604597 a conjecture is stated which gives sufficient conditions on cohomology classes on XX to be realized as the Chern classes of a stable reflexive sheaf VV; a weak version of this conjecture predicts the existence of such a VV if c2(V)c_2(V) is of a certain form. In this note we prove that on elliptically fibered XX infinitely many cohomology classes cH4(X,Z)c\in H^4(X, {\bf Z}) exist which are of this form and for each of them a stable SU(n) vector bundle with c=c2(V)c=c_2(V) exists.

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@article{arxiv.1010.1644,
  title  = {On possible Chern Classes of stable Bundles on Calabi-Yau threefolds},
  author = {Bjorn Andreas and Gottfried Curio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.1644},
  year   = {2011}
}

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