Counting string theory standard models

We derive an approximate analytic relation between the number of consistent heterotic Calabi-Yau compactifications of string theory with the exact charged matter content of the standard model of particle physics and the topological data of the internal manifold: the former scaling exponentially with...

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Main Authors: Andrei Constantin, Yang-Hui He, Andre Lukas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-05-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319302175