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hep-th2008★ 10 cited
Exploring a new peak in the heterotic landscape
Anthony Bak, Vincent Bouchard, Ron Donagi
We study the existence of realistic heterotic vacua on a new Abelian surface fibered Calabi-Yau threefold X with Z_8 x Z_8 fundamental group. Our main result is a no-go theorem, wh…
hep-th2008★ 32 cited
Topological open strings on orbifolds
Vincent Bouchard, Albrecht Klemm, Marcos Marino +1
We use the remodeling approach to the B-model topological string in terms of recursion relations to study open string amplitudes at orbifold points. To this end, we clarify modular…