Heterotic Models from Vector Bundles on Toric Calabi-Yau Manifolds

TL;DR

This paper systematically constructs heterotic string models using vector bundles on toric Calabi-Yau three-folds, identifying a subset that can produce realistic three-family particle physics models.

Contribution

It provides an exhaustive scan of positive monad bundles on specific toric Calabi-Yau three-folds, discovering a limited set suitable for realistic heterotic models.

Findings

Positive monad bundles exist on only 11 of 101 toric three-folds.

Only 21 models produce three families of quarks and leptons.

A larger class of semi-positive monads yields about 280 promising models.

Abstract

We systematically approach the construction of heterotic E_8 X E_8 Calabi-Yau models, based on compact Calabi-Yau three-folds arising from toric geometry and vector bundles on these manifolds. We focus on a simple class of 101 such three-folds with smooth ambient spaces, on which we perform an exhaustive scan and find all positive monad bundles with SU(N), N=3,4,5 structure groups, subject to the heterotic anomaly cancellation constraint. We find that anomaly-free positive monads exist on only 11 of these toric three-folds with a total number of bundles of about 2000. Only 21 of these models, all of them on three-folds realizable as hypersurfaces in products of projective spaces, allow for three families of quarks and leptons. We also perform a preliminary scan over the much larger class of semi-positive monads which leads to about 44000 bundles with 280 of them satisfying the three-family constraint. These 280 models provide a starting point for heterotic model building based on toric three-folds.