Calabi-Yau metrics: what are they good for?

Abstract: Calabi-Yau manifolds have played a key role in both mathematics and physics, and are particularly important for deriving realistic models of particle physics from string theory. Unfortunately, very little is known about the explicit metrics on these spaces, leaving us unable, for example, to compute particle masses or couplings in these models. I will review recent progress in this direction on using numerical approximations to compute the metric and the (p,q)-form Laplacian on these spaces. I will finish with some examples of what one can do with this new "data".

general relativity and quantum cosmologyHEP - phenomenologyHEP - theorymathematical physicsquantum physics

Audience: researchers in the topic

HEP seminars TU Wien (Vienna)

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