On Folding Calabi-Yau Diagrams in M-theory Black Brane Scenarios

Abderrahim Bouhouch; Adil Belhaj

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On Folding Calabi-Yau Diagrams in M-theory Black Brane Scenarios

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Pith's one-line read Folding the tetra-quadric Calabi-Yau diagram under its outer automorphism symmetries reduces M-theory black brane potentials to those of four known compactifications with fewer Kähler moduli.

desk verdict A substitution exercise dressed as a geometric reduction; the explicit potentials are useful, but the central folding claim needs a real quotient construction. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.12948 v1 pith:QAEPDTSH submitted 2025-05-19 hep-th math-phmath.MP

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The reading

The paper sets out to show that M-theory on the tetra-quadric Calabi-Yau threefold—a complete intersection of four quadrics in $(\mathbb{CP}^1)^4$—contains, along certain slices, the physics of four simpler compactifications. The slicing is implemented by folding the colored diagram of the manifold under the outer-automorphism groups $Z_2$, $Z_2\times Z_2$, $Z_3$, and $Z_4$, which identify the projective-space vertices and constraint legs permuted by the symmetry. Substituting the corresponding rescalings of the four Kähler moduli and of the electric and magnetic charges into the black hole and black string effective potentials reproduces the known potentials of the $\mathbb{CP}^1\times\mathbb{CP}^1\times\mathbb{CP}^2$, bi-cubic, $\mathbb{CP}^1\times\mathbb{CP}^3$, and quintic compactifications. If correct, the tetra-quadric model is a parent theory whose lower-$h^{1,1}$ descendants are obtained by discrete quotients of its moduli space.

What carries the argument

The central object is the colored Calabi-Yau diagram, in which each projective-space factor is a red vertex, each polynomial constraint is a blue vertex, and legs connect them; for the tetra-quadric this is four degree-2 red vertices joined to one degree-8 blue vertex. The folding procedure identifies same-color, same-degree vertices permuted by an outer-automorphism group $\Gamma$ of the diagram, and the accompanying rescalings in Eqs. (4.2)–(4.24) map the Kähler moduli and electric and magnetic charges of the tetra-quadric model onto the variables of the target compactifications. These maps are the machinery that converts the four-moduli black hole and black string potentials into the known lower-dimensional potentials.

What would settle it

Substitute the folded ansatz of Eqs. (4.2)–(4.24) into the full equations of motion derived from the action (3.8) and check whether it solves them; if the folded fields do not satisfy the field equations beyond the scalar potential, the folding is only a potential-level coincidence rather than a truncation of M-theory on the tetra-quadric.

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Core claim

The central claim is that M-theory black branes on the tetra-quadric Calabi-Yau manifold can be reduced by folding to known compactifications with lower-dimensional Kähler moduli spaces. On the graph-theoretic side, the tetra-quadric diagram is invariant under the outer-automorphism groups $Z_2$, $Z_2\times Z_2$, $Z_3$, and $Z_4$, and each folding identifies the permuted red vertices and green legs, producing respectively the diagrams of a CICY in $\mathbb{CP}^1\times\mathbb{CP}^1\times\mathbb{CP}^2$, the bi-cubic in $\mathbb{CP}^2\times\mathbb{CP}^2$, a CICY in $\mathbb{CP}^1\times\mathbb{CP}^3$, and the quintic in $\mathbb{CP}^4$. On the physical side, substituting the corresponding rescalings of moduli and charges into the effective scalar potentials $V^{\rm BH}_{\rm eff}$ and $V^{\rm BS}_{\rm eff}$ recovers the known black hole and black string potentials of those compactifications. The paper presents this as a truncation: the lower-dimensional Kähler geometries are slices of the tetra-quadric moduli space.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the specific numerical rescalings in Eqs. (4.2)–(4.24) are genuine truncations of the five-dimensional theory, not merely coordinate changes fitted to reproduce known potentials; the graph symmetry alone does not determine those rescalings.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

Under the four foldings, the tetra-quadric black hole and black string potentials reduce exactly to the potentials computed for the $\mathbb{CP}^1\times\mathbb{CP}^1\times\mathbb{CP}^2$, bi-cubic, $\mathbb{CP}^1\times\mathbb{CP}^3$, and quintic models.
The dimension of the Kähler moduli space drops from $h^{1,1}=4$ to $3$, $2$, $2$, and $1$, respectively, matching the number of retained red vertices in each folded diagram.
The folding prescriptions impose concrete charge identifications on the M2/M5 wrapping charges, such as $q_3=q_4$ under $Z_2$, $q_1=q_2$ and $q_3=q_4$ under $Z_2\times Z_2$, and all charges equal under $Z_4$.
Stability and BPS/non-BPS results obtained for the simpler compactifications carry over to the corresponding folded sectors of the tetra-quadric model.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The paper verifies the reduction at the level of the scalar potentials; a complete truncation claim would additionally require showing that the folded ansatz satisfies the full equations of motion and preserves the BPS conditions of the parent theory.
The same folding procedure should apply to other complete intersection Calabi-Yau threefolds whose colored diagrams have an outer automorphism permuting equal-degree factors, giving a general graph-theoretic reduction of black brane data.
The numerical factors in the folding maps appear fitted to reproduce known formulas; deriving them from the Kähler metric or the discrete quotient action would turn the observation into a predictive statement for unexplored charge regions.
The stability classification of the target models through the recombination factor could be pulled back to the tetra-quadric model, yielding testable predictions for stable and unstable charge regions on the folded slices.

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The useful content is the explicit computation of the tetra-quadric black hole and black string potentials and the observation that these potentials contain slices matching known models. The central claim—that this is a genuine M-theory reduction via folding—is not supported. The maps in Section 4 look like fitted rescalings, not derived truncations.

What the paper does well: the authors grind out the full scalar potentials for the tetra-quadric compactification, which is a tedious calculation worth having as a reference. They also exhibit, for each of Z2, Z2×Z2, Z3, and Z4, an explicit identification of moduli and charges that turns the tetra-quadric potential into the potential of a known CICY. As an algebraic identity, that is correct, modulo the direction-of-arrow ambiguity and some typos.

The soft spots are load-bearing. The automorphism group of the tetra-quadric star diagram is S4, not just the four listed groups; listing cyclic/abelian subgroups misses the point. More seriously, the numerical rescaling factors (3/2, 4/3, √2, 2, etc.) are not fixed by the graph symmetry. They are chosen so the substitution works. The Z4 example in the stress-test shows that reading the arrow one way gives a factor 256 mismatch, so the matching is a coordinate convention, not a geometric invariant. No check is made that the Kähler metric, gauge kinetic matrix, Chern–Simons term, or equations of motion reduce consistently. Matching the scalar potential along a slice of moduli space is not a truncation of the 5D supergravity theory. The typos in Eq. (3.4) (C134 repeated) and Eq. (3.5) (i=k≠k) are minor but suggest the algebraic identities were not fully checked.

Who is this for? Readers who want the explicit tetra-quadric potentials, or who are curious about the folding idea as an algebraic trick. It is not for readers wanting a physical reduction proof.

My recommendation: do not cite this as a reduction, and do not accept it as is. But I would send it to a referee rather than desk reject—the computations are concrete, checkable, and the authors could in principle fix the gap by deriving the maps from a genuine Γ-invariant ansatz and checking the full action. That would be a nontrivial revision, but the paper has enough substance to justify referee time.

Referee Report

3 major / 6 minor

Summary. The paper computes the effective scalar potentials of 5D black holes and black strings obtained from M-theory compactified on the tetra-quadric Calabi-Yau threefold, a (2,2,2,2) complete intersection in (P1)^4 with h^{1,1}=4, and proposes that by "folding" the associated colored CY diagram under the outer automorphism groups Z2, Z2×Z2, Z3, and Z4 — identifying the Kähler moduli and charges in the same orbit — the tetra-quadric black brane potentials reduce to those of known compactifications with fewer Kähler moduli: a CICY in P1×P1×P2 (h^{1,1}=3), the bi-cubic in P2×P2, a K3 fibration in P1×P3, and the quintic in P4. Section 3 presents the tetra-quadric potentials, and Section 4 gives explicit rescaling maps for the moduli and charges, asserting without displaying the substitution that these maps recover the target potentials of refs. [1] and [6]. No quotient geometry or consistent-truncation check is provided.

Significance. If the reduction claim were established, the paper would offer a useful organizing principle: discrete symmetries of CY diagrams would imply relations among black brane effective potentials and stability properties across five different M-theory compactifications, and would allow the four-modulus tetra-quadric to be analyzed through its lower-dimensional folded descendants. The compilation of explicit tetra-quadric potentials in Section 3 is also a potentially useful reference. However, the significance is substantially undercut as presented: the central identities are asserted rather than derived, the parent potential as printed is internally inconsistent, and no machine-checked algebra or reproducible computation is provided. The genuine contribution is thus at the level of a conjecture about a folding principle, not a demonstrated result.

major comments (3)

[Section 3.1, Eqs. (3.4)-(3.13)] The printed parent potential is not self-consistent and cannot serve as the basis for the claimed reductions. The intersection numbers (3.4), with C134 printed twice and C234 omitted, together with the volume (3.6), are invariant under all permutations of the four Kähler moduli, so the effective potential V_BH = G(q,t)/T(t) must be S4-symmetric at the point t_i = 2. Direct evaluation of the printed expressions (3.11)-(3.13) at t_i = 2 gives g11 = 2816 but g33 = 2624, and g12 = -256 while g13 = g14 = -576; the S4 symmetry actually forces all four diagonal gii to be equal and all off-diagonal gij to be equal. In addition, the list of matrix elements omits g34 and g44 entirely. At least some of the printed gij therefore contain errors, and the claimed recovery of the target potentials in Section 4 cannot be checked against the parent potential as it stands.
[Sections 4.1-4.4, Eqs. (4.2)-(4.24)] The folding maps are presented as an ansatz, not derived. The graph automorphism Gamma fixes only which variables are identified (for example t3 = t4 in the Z2 case, or t1 = t2 = t3 = t4 in the Z4 case); it does not fix the rescaling factors appearing in (4.2)-(4.24), such as sqrt(2/3)/3, 3/2, 4/3, cubert(3/2), sqrt(2), sqrt(6), and 8/5. These coefficients are not determined by the group action and can only be fixed by requiring the target formulas of refs. [1] and [6] to be reproduced, which is the fitting target. No substitution is actually displayed: each subsection simply states that one recovers the target potential. Moreover, because the parent and target potentials are homogeneous -- G is of degree 6 in t and degree 2 in q while T is of degree 4 in t -- an overall rescaling of the target fields absorbs any constant normalization mismatch; on the fully symmetric slice V_BH scales as a^4 under t_i -> a t_i and q_i -> a q_i, so Eq. (4.22) is compatible with (4.20)-(4.21) for exactly one of the two possible readings of the arrow, and the manuscript never states which reading is intended. Potential matching along a slice, without a group-theoretic determination of the embedding, does not establish that these maps describe a physical reduction.
[Section 2.3 and Section 4, and Abstract] The central claim that M-theory black branes on the tetra-quadric can be reduced to the known compactifications is not supported by any mechanism of reduction. A consistent truncation requires a group-invariant ansatz under which the full 5D action (3.8), including the Kähler moduli kinetic terms, the gauge kinetic matrix, and the Chern-Simons term Cijk F^i∧F^j∧A^k, reduces to the target action, with the target equations of motion following from the parent ones; none of these checks is performed. Nor are the target geometries exhibited as quotients: the paper does not show, for example, that the image of the (2,2,2,2) hypersurface under a Z2 quotient (P1)^4 -> P1×P1×P2 is the specific CICY named in Section 4.1, or that a Z4-invariant locus of the tetra-quadric maps to the quintic in P4 (the relevant ambient relation would involve Sym^4(P1) ≅ P4). The folded diagrams in Figs. 4-7 are asserted to represent the target manifolds, but the correspondence between the folded graph and an actual Calabi-Yau quotient with the claimed Hodge numbers is never established.

minor comments (6)

[Eq. (3.4)] The entry C134 is printed twice and C234 is omitted; comparison with the volume (3.6) shows the intended statement is C123 = C124 = C134 = C234 = 2.
[Eq. (3.5)] The condition "i=k≠k" is meaningless; presumably "i=k≠j" is intended.
[Section 3.1, Eqs. (3.12)-(3.13)] The list of matrix elements gij is incomplete, as g34 and g44 are not given.
[Sections 4.1-4.4] The direction of each folding map -- whether the arrow expresses parent fields in terms of folded fields or vice versa -- should be stated explicitly, and at least one complete substitution, for example the Z2 black hole case, should be displayed so that the claimed recovery can be checked.
[Section 3.1, Eq. (3.10)] The notation Gij qi qj conflicts with the standard 5D black hole potential V = G^{ij} q_i q_j built from the inverse moduli metric; the convention used for Gij in (3.10)-(3.11) should be clarified.
[Throughout] The manuscript contains numerous typographical errors that should be corrected in a proofreading pass: "Dynking" for "Dynkin" in Section 2.2, "digram" for "diagram" in Sections 4.3-4.4, "consorted" for "accompanied" in Section 4.1, "shearing similarities" in Section 2.2, "in in M-theory" in Section 4.4, a duplicated caption line "Table 1: Tetra-quadric CY diagram and its outer-automorphism groups" on page 11, and broken superscript typesetting such as "t4 1" in the potential formulas.

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The folding maps (4.2)-(4.24) are fitted coordinate rescalings: Γ fixes only vertex identifications, while the numerical prefactors are chosen so that substituting into (3.11)/(3.14) returns the known potentials of refs [1] and [6]. The 'reductions' are therefore matching identities, not derived truncations.

fitted input called prediction [Section 4.1, Eqs. (4.2)-(4.4)]
"(t1,t2,t3,t4) → 1/3 √(2/3) (t1,t2, 3/2 t3, 3/2 t3), (q1,q2,q3,q4) → ∛(3/2) (q1,q2, 4/3 q3, 4/3 q3). Putting such transformed Kähler moduli and charges in the black hole scalar potential Eq.(3.10), we recover the scalar potential of 5D black holes obtained from M-theory on a CICY in the projective space CP1×CP1×CP2 reported in [6]."

The Z2 automorphism of the tetra-quadric diagram only identifies two red vertices, which would impose t3=t4 and q3=q4. The numerical factors 1/3√(2/3), 3/2, 4/3 and ∛(3/2) are not determined by Γ or by any quotient construction; they are free parameters of a coordinate rescaling. They are fixed by demanding that the substituted potential equals the formula 'reported in [6]'. Thus the Z2 reduction is an inverse fit to the target potential, not an independent derivation; the claimed reduction is the fitting target by construction.
fitted input called prediction [Section 4.2, Eqs. (4.8)-(4.10)]
"On such moduli spaces, the Z2×Z2 actions can be accompanied by the following transformations on the ti and qi physical quantities (t1,t2,t3,t4) → √2 (t1,t1,t2,t2), (q1,q2,q3,q4) → √2 (q1,q1,q2,q2). Putting such transformed Kähler moduli and charges in the black hole scalar potential Eq.(3.10), we recover the scalar potential of 5D black holes obtained from M-theory on the bi-cubic in the projective space CP2×CP2 reported in [1]."

The graph symmetry identifies t1 with t2 and t3 with t4, but the overall factor √2 is not forced by Γ. The substitution is chosen so that the four-modulus potential (3.11) becomes the two-modulus bi-cubic potential of [1]. The bi-cubic formula is therefore the fitting target; the folding map is calibrated to reproduce it rather than being derived from a group-invariant truncation of the full 5D action.

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fitted input called prediction [Section 4.3, Eqs. (4.14)-(4.16)]
"On such spaces, the Z3 actions on the ti and qi quantities can be accompanied by the following transformations (t1,t2,t3,t4) → 2 (t1,t1,t1, 1/2 t2), (q1,q2,q3,q4) → 3/2 (q1,q1,q1, 2/3 q2). Putting such transformed the Kähler moduli and the charges in the black hole scalar potential Eq.(3.10), we recover the scalar potential of 5D black holes obtained from M-theory on a CICY in the ambient projective space CP1×CP3 as reported in [1]."

The Z3 vertex identification only identifies t1=t2=t3 and q1=q2=q3; the factors 2, 1/2, 3/2 and 2/3 are additional rescalings without derivation. They are selected so that the tetra-quadric potential (3.11) reduces to the CP1×CP3 potential quoted from [1]. Consequently the 'reduction' is a potential-matching identity on an ad hoc slice, not a consequence of the automorphism group action.
fitted input called prediction [Section 4.4, Eqs. (4.20)-(4.22)]
"On such spaces, the Z4 folding action can be accompanied by the following transformations on the ti and qi quantities (t1,t2,t3,t4) → 2 (t1,t1,t1,t1), (q1,q2,q3,q4) → 2 (q1,q1,q1,q1). Putting such transformed Kähler moduli and charges in the black hole scalar potential Eq.(3.10), we obtain the scalar potential of 5D black holes obtained from M-theory on the quintic CY manifold. In this way, the black hole effective potential is found to be VBH eff = G(t1,q1)/T(t1), where ... G(t1,q1)=2/3 q1^2 t1^2, T(t1)=1."

The Z4 identification alone gives t1=t2=t3=t4 and q1=q2=q3=q4 with no numerical prefactor. The factor 2 is a free rescaling chosen so that (3.11) becomes the quintic potential (4.22). No quintic quotient geometry of the tetra-quadric is exhibited, and no check is made that the Kähler metric, gauge kinetic matrix or Chern-Simons term reduce; the claimed reduction is therefore established only by fitting the potential to the known quintic result.

full rationale

The paper's own folding definition in Sec. 2.3 fixes only which vertices of the colored diagram are identified by an outer automorphism Γ. It does not determine rescalings of the Kähler or charge coordinates. In each subsection of Sec. 4, new prefactors (1/3√(2/3), ∛(3/2), √2, 2, etc.) are introduced with the phrase 'can be accompanied by', and then the substituted potential is said to 'recover' or 'obtain' the known formula from [1] or [6]. Since the target formula is the only stated criterion used to fix these prefactors, the 'reduction' is an algebraic identity along a fitted slice, not an independent derivation of the lower-dimensional compactification. The graph automorphism would only give t_i=t_j and q_i=q_j; the numerical coefficients are free parameters. No check is made that the full 5D action—Kähler metric G_ij, gauge kinetic matrix, or Chern-Simons term—reduces to the target theory, and the target CYs (CP1×CP1×CP2, bi-cubic, CP1×CP3, quintic) are not exhibited as quotient geometries of the tetra-quadric. Reference [6] is a self-citation by the present authors, but the core circularity is not self-citation per se: it is that the folding maps are calibrated to the potentials they purport to derive. The underlying computation of the tetra-quadric potentials in Sec. 3 is not itself circular; the circularity lies in the central claim that folding produces known compactifications. Score 7 reflects that the central claim reduces by construction to potential matching, while the raw tetra-quadric potential calculation remains independent input.

Assumptions & free parameters 8 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the standard CICY and 5D supergravity framework, plus two paper-specific assumptions: that graph folding is a valid geometric and field-theoretic truncation, and that the numerical rescaling maps in Section 4 are the correct embeddings. The eight free parameter entries record the rescaling coefficients, which are stated without derivation and appear fitted to match the known potentials.

free parameters (8)

Z2 BH folding map coefficients (Eq. 4.2-4.3) = t: (1/3)√(2/3)(t1,t2,3t3/2,3t3/2); q: ∛(3/2)(q1,q2,4q3/3,4q3/3).
Chosen so substitution into the tetra-quadric potential yields the known CP1×CP1×CP2 black hole potential from ref [6]; not derived from the Z2 action.
Z2 string folding map coefficients (Eq. 4.5-4.6) = t: (1/3)(2t1,2t2,3t3,3t3); p: 6(2p1,2p2,3p3,3p3).
Chosen so substitution yields the known CP1×CP1×CP2 black string potential from ref [6]; not derived from the Z2 action.
Z2xZ2 BH folding map coefficients (Eq. 4.8-4.9) = t: √2(t1,t1,t2,t2); q: √2(q1,q1,q2,q2).
Chosen so substitution yields the bi-cubic CP2×CP2 black hole potential from ref [1]; the factor √2 is not determined by the graph symmetry.
Z2xZ2 string folding map coefficients (Eq. 4.11-4.12) = t: (2/3)(t1,t1,t2,t2); p: 6(p1,p1,p2,p2).
Chosen so substitution yields the bi-cubic black string potential from ref [1]; factors are fitted, not derived.
Z3 BH folding map coefficients (Eq. 4.14-4.15) = t: (2t1,2t1,2t1,t2); q: (3q1/2,3q1/2,3q1/2,q2).
Chosen so substitution yields the CP1×CP3 black hole potential from ref [1]; factors are not fixed by the Z3 orbit condition.
Z3 string folding map coefficients (Eq. 4.17-4.18) = t: √6(2t1,2t1,2t1,t2); p: (1/8)(2p1,2p1,2p1,p2).
Chosen so substitution yields the K3 fibration black string potential from ref [1]; coefficients are fitted.
Z4 BH folding map coefficients (Eq. 4.20-4.21) = t: 2(t1,t1,t1,t1); q: 2(q1,q1,q1,q1).
Chosen so substitution yields the quintic black hole potential; the factor 2 is not derived from the Z4 action.
Z4 string folding map coefficients (Eq. 4.23-4.24) = t: √6(t1,t1,t1,t1); p: (8/5)(p1,p1,p1,p1).
Chosen so substitution yields the quintic black string potential; coefficients are fitted to match known normalization.

assumptions (5)

standard math CICY triple intersection numbers Cijk are computed from Kähler forms via Cijk = ∫_A μ ∧ J_i ∧ J_j ∧ J_k (Eq. 2.5).
Standard CICY geometry; used to obtain the tetra-quadric volume and Kähler metric.
domain assumption The 5D Maxwell-Einstein action in Eq. (3.8) correctly describes M-theory compactified on the tetra-quadric within 5D N=2 supergravity.
Standard compactification setup from the cited literature; not derived here.
domain assumption The effective scalar potentials V_BH = G^{ij} q_i q_j and V_BS = 4 G^{ij} p_i p_j (Eqs. 3.10, 3.14) are the relevant potentials for the black brane stability analysis.
Taken from refs [1,6]; the folding checks compare only these potential formulas.
ad hoc to paper Folding a CY diagram by identifying vertices permuted by an outer automorphism Γ produces a valid CY threefold diagram and corresponds to a consistent truncation of the M-theory compactification.
Introduced in Section 2.3 and assumed throughout Section 4; no proof of geometric or field-theoretic consistency is given.
ad hoc to paper The explicit numerical rescaling maps in Eqs. (4.2)-(4.24) are the correct embeddings of the lower-dimensional Kähler and charge moduli spaces into those of the tetra-quadric.
The maps are stated without derivation; their coefficients appear fitted to reproduce the known target potentials.

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abstract

In this paper, we reconsider the study of five-dimensional supersymmetric black branes in the context of the M-theory compactification on a special Calabi-Yau manifold called tetra-quadric, being realized as complete intersections of homogenous polynomials in the projective space $ \mathbb{CP}^{1}\times\mathbb{CP}^{1}\times\mathbb{CP}^{1}\times\mathbb{CP}^{1}$. Combining colored graph theory and outer-automorphism group action techniques, we approach the tetra-quadric Calabi-Yau diagram leading to new features. Using a procedure referred to as folding, we show that M-theory black branes on the tetra-quadric Calabi-Yau manifold can be reduced to known compactifications with lower dimensional K\"{a}hler moduli spaces.

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**Figure 1.** Diagram of bi-cubic in CP2 × CP2 . Having given the most relevant data of such CY building models via graph theory techniques, we move to provide new features corresponding to discrete group actions. 2.3 Folding CY diagrams Inspired by Dynking diagram techniques [32, 33], we would like to generate a new feature from CY diagrams using the so-called folding procedure. This can be done with the help of an outer-automo… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Z2 folding of diagram of bi-cubic in CP2 × CP2 . In what follows, we show that such folding diagrams of CY threefolds can be explored in the study of 5D black branes from the M-theory compactification on the tetra-quadric CY manifold. 3 M-theory black branes from the tetra-quadric CY In this section, we reconsider the investigation of 5D black holes and black strings from the so-called favorable CY3 which is a tetra… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Tetra-quadric CY diagram. These intersection numbers provide the volume of the proposed CY being expressed as follows V = 2t1t2t3 + 2t1t3t4 + 2t2t3t4 + 2t1t2t4 (3.6) linked to the K¨ahler moduli space metric Gij via the relation Gij = − 1 2 ∂i∂j log(V). (3.7) The M-theory compactification on such a CY can be approached by help of 5D N = 2 supergravity formalism [12–18]. In this regard, the M-theory black branes can … view at source ↗

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**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Z2 folding of tetra-quadric CY diagram. scenario leads to a digram which can be associated with a CY threefold in the projective space CP1 ×CP1 ×CP2 . The resulting K¨ahler geometry involves one dimension less than the natural one. This dimension reduction can be inter…

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Z2 × Z2 folding of the tetra-quadric CY diagram. This folding scenario leads to a diagram which can represent the bi-cubic in the projective space CP2 × CP2 . The resulting K¨ahler geometry involves two dimension less than the natural one. This dimension reduction can …

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Z3 folding of the tetra-quadric CY diagram. the K¨ahler and the charge moduli spaces. On such spaces, the Z3 actions on the ti and qi quantities can be accompanied by the following transformations (t1, t2, t3, t4) → 2 t1, t1, t1, 1 2 t2 (4.14) (q1, q2, q3, q4) → 3 …

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Z4 folding of the tetra-quadric CY diagram. The present folding scenario provides a digram which can represent a quintic in the projective space CP4 . The resulting K¨ahler geometry involves three dimension less than the natural one. This dimension reduction can be in…

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