The Expanding Zoo of Calabi-Yau Threefolds

This is a short review of recent constructions of new Calabi-Yau threefolds with small Hodge numbers and/or nontrivial fundamental group, which are of particular interest for model building in the context of heterotic string theory. The two main tools are topological transitions and taking quotients...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rhys Davies
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Advances in High Energy Physics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/901898