K3 metrics
Max Zimet (Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature High Energy Theory Group and Black Hole initiative fellow, Harvard University, Boston, USA)
Abstract: I will explain the recent physically motivated construction of Ricci-flat K3 metrics in 2006.02435, which gives the first examples of Ricci-flat metrics on compact non-toroidal Calabi-Yau manifolds. I will also relate it — both physically and mathematically — to a second such construction, which is as yet not completely explicit: the missing data is the BPS index of a little string theory on $T^2$. In particular, I will show that these discrete invariants may be extracted from the metrics produced by the first approach.
astrophysicscondensed mattergeneral relativity and quantum cosmologyHEP - phenomenologyHEP - theorymathematical physicsquantum physics
Audience: researchers in the topic
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Quantum Aspects of Space-Time and Matter
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