PIRSA:20120003

The geometry of string compactifications

Anderson, L. (2020). The geometry of string compactifications. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/20120003

Anderson, Lara. The geometry of string compactifications. Perimeter Institute, Dec. 02, 2020, https://pirsa.org/20120003 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:20120003,
            doi = {10.48660/20120003},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/20120003},
            author = {Anderson, Lara},
            keywords = {Other},
            language = {en},
            title = {The geometry of string compactifications},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2020},
            month = {dec},
            note = {PIRSA:20120003 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Lara Anderson

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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In string compactifications the roles of physics and geometry are intrinsically intertwined. While the goals of these 4-dimensional effective theories are physical, the path to those answers frequently leads to cutting-edge challenges in modern mathematics. In this talk, I will describe recent progress in characterizing the geometry of Calabi-Yau manifolds in terms their description as elliptic fibrations. This description has remarkable consequences for the form of the string vacuum space and the properties of string effective theories, including particle masses and couplings.