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Stabilizing the Complex Structure in Heterotic Calabi-Yau Vacua

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In this paper, we show that the presence of gauge fields in heterotic Calabi-Yau compacitifications causes the stabilisation of some, or all, of the complex structure moduli of the Calabi-Yau manifold while maintaining a Minkowski vacuum. Certain deformations of the Calabi-Yau complex structure, with all other moduli held fixed, can lead to the gauge bundle becoming non-holomorphic and, hence, non-supersymmetric. This leads to an F-term potential which stabilizes the corresponding complex structure moduli. We use 10- and 4-dimensional field theory arguments as well as a derivation based purely on algebraic geometry to show that this picture is indeed correct. An explicit example is presented in which a large subset of complex structure moduli is fixed. We demonstrate that this type of theory can serve as the hidden sector in heterotic vacua and can co-exist with realistic particle physics.

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Exploring Line Bundle Standard Models with Transformers

hep-th · 2026-06-30 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

A Transformer RL agent is trained to generate valid heterotic line bundle sums on CICYs that satisfy gauge embedding, anomaly cancellation, poly-stability, chirality, and no-exotics constraints.

On a Deformed Holomorphic Chern-Simons Theory

hep-th · 2026-04-13 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Deforming holomorphic Chern-Simons theory produces rescaling-invariant instantons and anomaly-free theories on End(TX) for Morse-classified directions in deformation space.

What to do with a Ricci-flat Calabi--Yau metric?

hep-th · 2026-05-22 · unverdicted · novelty 2.0

A roadmap paper describing potential applications of numerical Ricci-flat Calabi-Yau metrics to heterotic string phenomenology and mathematical questions in special geometry.

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  • Exploring Line Bundle Standard Models with Transformers hep-th · 2026-06-30 · unverdicted · none · ref 42 · internal anchor

    A Transformer RL agent is trained to generate valid heterotic line bundle sums on CICYs that satisfy gauge embedding, anomaly cancellation, poly-stability, chirality, and no-exotics constraints.

  • On a Deformed Holomorphic Chern-Simons Theory hep-th · 2026-04-13 · unverdicted · none · ref 3

    Deforming holomorphic Chern-Simons theory produces rescaling-invariant instantons and anomaly-free theories on End(TX) for Morse-classified directions in deformation space.

  • What to do with a Ricci-flat Calabi--Yau metric? hep-th · 2026-05-22 · unverdicted · none · ref 81 · internal anchor

    A roadmap paper describing potential applications of numerical Ricci-flat Calabi-Yau metrics to heterotic string phenomenology and mathematical questions in special geometry.