The Kreuzer-Skarke axiverse
The Kreuzer-Skarke axiverse
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DOI:
10.1007/jhep04(2020)138
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发表时间:
2018-08
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
Mehmet Demirtas;Cody Long;Liam McAllister;Michael Stillman
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作者:
Mehmet Demirtas;Cody Long;Liam McAllister;Michael Stillman
We study the topological properties of Calabi-Yau threefold hypersurfaces at large h 1, 1. We obtain two million threefolds X by triangulating polytopes from the Kreuzer-Skarke list, including all polytopes with 240≤ h 1, 1≤ 491. We show that the Kähler cone of X is very narrow at large h 1, 1, and as a consequence, control of the α′ expansion in string compactifications on X is correlated with the presence of ultralight axions. If every effective curve has volume≥ 1 in string units, then the typical volumes of irreducible effective curves and divisors, and of X itself, scale as (h 1, 1) p, with 3≲ p≲ 7 depending on the type of cycle in question. Instantons from branes wrapping these cycles are thus highly suppressed.