Holes in Calabi-Yau Effective Cones

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Autores principales: Gendler, Naomi, Sheridan, Elijah, Stillman, Michael, Wu, David H.
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author Gendler, Naomi
Sheridan, Elijah
Stillman, Michael
Wu, David H.
author_facet Gendler, Naomi
Sheridan, Elijah
Stillman, Michael
Wu, David H.
contents Motivated by their role in non-perturbative potentials in string theory, we study divisors in effective cones of Calabi-Yau threefolds. We give examples of geometries for which some divisor classes in the effective cone are not themselves effective: i.e., they have no global sections. We call these non-holomorphic divisor classes "holes," and characterize their behavior in an ensemble of toric hypersurface Calabi-Yau threefolds. We prove some necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of holes, show consequences of holes that follow from the minimal model program, and demonstrate that a class of holes come in semigroups (with this class conjectured to constitute all holes). Furthermore, we provide moduli-dependent bounds on the volumes of four-cycles representing holes.
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spellingShingle Holes in Calabi-Yau Effective Cones
Gendler, Naomi
Sheridan, Elijah
Stillman, Michael
Wu, David H.
High Energy Physics - Theory
Algebraic Geometry
Motivated by their role in non-perturbative potentials in string theory, we study divisors in effective cones of Calabi-Yau threefolds. We give examples of geometries for which some divisor classes in the effective cone are not themselves effective: i.e., they have no global sections. We call these non-holomorphic divisor classes "holes," and characterize their behavior in an ensemble of toric hypersurface Calabi-Yau threefolds. We prove some necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of holes, show consequences of holes that follow from the minimal model program, and demonstrate that a class of holes come in semigroups (with this class conjectured to constitute all holes). Furthermore, we provide moduli-dependent bounds on the volumes of four-cycles representing holes.
title Holes in Calabi-Yau Effective Cones
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Algebraic Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11173