4 papers
Heterotic strings on and their dual Calabi-Yau threefolds
Andreas Banlaki, Aradhita Chattopadhyaya, Abhiram Kidambi +2
In this paper we study compactifications of the heterotic string on with various gauge backgrounds and calculate the topo…
On Mathieu moonshine and Gromov-Witten invariants
Andreas Banlaki, Abhishek Chowdhury, Abhiram Kidambi +1
We show that a large number of manifolds are involved in an intricate way in Mathieu moonshine viz. their Gromov--Witten invariants are related to the expansion coefficients…
Scaling limits of dS vacua and the swampland
Andreas Banlaki, Abhishek Chowdhury, Christoph Roupec +1
We discuss the properties of massive type IIA flux compactifications. In particular, we investigate in which case one can obtain dS vacua at large volume and small coupling. We sup…
Calabi-Yau manifolds and sporadic groups
Andreas Banlaki, Abhishek Chowdhury, Abhiram Kidambi +3
A few years ago a connection between the elliptic genus of the K3 manifold and the largest Mathieu group M was proposed. We study the elliptic genera for Calabi-Yau manifold…