PIRSA:07120038

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https://pirsa.org/07120038

Computing the Massless Spectrum of Non-Kahler Compactifications

Lapan, J. (2007). Computing the Massless Spectrum of Non-Kahler Compactifications. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/07120038

Lapan, Joshua. Computing the Massless Spectrum of Non-Kahler Compactifications. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Dec. 07, 2007, https://pirsa.org/07120038 

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:07120038,
            doi = {10.48660/07120038},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/07120038},
            author = {Lapan, Joshua},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {Computing the Massless Spectrum of Non-Kahler Compactifications},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2007},
            month = {dec},
            note = {PIRSA:07120038 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/07120038}}
          }

Joshua Lapan Harvard University

Talk numberPIRSA:07120038
DOI10.48660/07120038
Source RepositoryPIRSA
Talk Type Conference
Subject

Abstract

While Calabi-Yau compactifications of string theory are mathematically elegant, they typically result in many massless scalars in the low-energy, four-dimensional theory. Thus, it is interesting to consider non-Kahler compactifications in the hopes of deriving more phenomenologically interesting models. These models have received little attention in the heterotic theory owing to their mathematical complexity, however in recent work we have found a potential way to derive interesting features of such compactifications using gauged linear sigma models.