Divisor topologies of CICY 3-folds and their applications to phenomenology

TL;DR

This paper classifies divisor topologies of pCICY 3-folds, revealing only 11 distinct types, and explores their applications in string phenomenology, including moduli stabilization and vacuum search.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive classification of divisor topologies and ample divisors in pCICY 3-folds, facilitating systematic string model building and moduli stabilization.

Findings

Only 11 divisor topologies found in pCICY database

Classification of divisors with their deformations within the 3-folds

Preliminary moduli stabilization analysis in simple models

Abstract

In this article, we present a classification for the divisor topologies of the projective complete intersection Calabi-Yau (pCICY) 3-folds realized as hypersurfaces in the product of complex projective spaces. There are 7890 such pCICYs of which 7820 are favorable, and can be subsequently useful for phenomenological purposes. To our surprise we find that the whole pCICY database results in only 11 (so-called coordinate) divisors $(D)$ of distinct topology and we classify those surfaces with their possible deformations inside the pCICY 3-fold, which turn out to be satisfying $1 \leq h^{2,0}(D) \leq 7$. We also present a classification of the so-called ample divisors for all the favorable pCICYs which can be useful for fixing all the (saxionic) K\"ahler moduli through a single non-perturbative term in the superpotential. We argue that this relatively unexplored pCICY dataset equipped with the necessary model building ingredients, can be used for a systematic search of physical vacua. To illustrate this for model building in the context of type IIB CY orientifold compactifications, we present moduli stabilization with some preliminary analysis of searching possible vacua in simple models, as a template to be adopted for analyzing models with a larger number of K\"ahler moduli.