Geodesics in the extended Kahler cone of Calabi-Yau threefolds

We present a detailed study of the effective cones of Calabi-Yau threefolds with h1,1 = 2, including the possible types of walls bounding the Kähler cone and a classification of the intersection forms arising in the geometrical phases. For all three normal forms in the classification we explicitly s...

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Հիմնական հեղինակներ: Brodie, CR, Constantin, A, Lukas, A, Ruehle, F
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author Brodie, CR
Constantin, A
Lukas, A
Ruehle, F
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Lukas, A
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description We present a detailed study of the effective cones of Calabi-Yau threefolds with h1,1 = 2, including the possible types of walls bounding the Kähler cone and a classification of the intersection forms arising in the geometrical phases. For all three normal forms in the classification we explicitly solve the geodesic equation and use this to study the evolution near Kähler cone walls and across flop transitions in the context of M-theory compactifications. In the case where the geometric regime ends at a wall beyond which the effective cone continues, the geodesics “crash” into the wall, signaling a breakdown of the M-theory supergravity approximation. For illustration, we characterise the structure of the extended Kähler and effective cones of all h1,1 = 2 threefolds from the CICY and Kreuzer-Skarke lists, providing a rich set of examples for studying topology change in string theory. These examples show that all three cases of intersection form are realised and suggest that isomorphic flops and infinite flop sequences are common phenomena.
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spelling oxford-uuid:da752938-49a0-476a-ba46-3274ded095552022-08-17T11:13:55ZGeodesics in the extended Kahler cone of Calabi-Yau threefoldsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:da752938-49a0-476a-ba46-3274ded09555EnglishSymplectic ElementsSpringer Nature2022Brodie, CRConstantin, ALukas, ARuehle, FWe present a detailed study of the effective cones of Calabi-Yau threefolds with h1,1 = 2, including the possible types of walls bounding the Kähler cone and a classification of the intersection forms arising in the geometrical phases. For all three normal forms in the classification we explicitly solve the geodesic equation and use this to study the evolution near Kähler cone walls and across flop transitions in the context of M-theory compactifications. In the case where the geometric regime ends at a wall beyond which the effective cone continues, the geodesics “crash” into the wall, signaling a breakdown of the M-theory supergravity approximation. For illustration, we characterise the structure of the extended Kähler and effective cones of all h1,1 = 2 threefolds from the CICY and Kreuzer-Skarke lists, providing a rich set of examples for studying topology change in string theory. These examples show that all three cases of intersection form are realised and suggest that isomorphic flops and infinite flop sequences are common phenomena.
spellingShingle Brodie, CR
Constantin, A
Lukas, A
Ruehle, F
Geodesics in the extended Kahler cone of Calabi-Yau threefolds
title Geodesics in the extended Kahler cone of Calabi-Yau threefolds
title_full Geodesics in the extended Kahler cone of Calabi-Yau threefolds
title_fullStr Geodesics in the extended Kahler cone of Calabi-Yau threefolds
title_full_unstemmed Geodesics in the extended Kahler cone of Calabi-Yau threefolds
title_short Geodesics in the extended Kahler cone of Calabi-Yau threefolds
title_sort geodesics in the extended kahler cone of calabi yau threefolds
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