Title: New aspects of line bundle cohomology and applications to string phenomenology (slides)

Speaker: Andrei Constantin (Oxford)

Time: 14:45-15:20 (GMT+0), 2021.08.05

Abstract:

The calculation of vector bundle cohomology represents a key ingredient in string phenomenology, being associated with the massless modes of both heterotic and Type II string compactifications. In this talk I report some recent progress in deriving closed-form expressions for line bundle cohomology on spaces of interest in string theory, which include complex surfaces such as compact toric surfaces, generalised del Pezzo surfaces and K3 surfaces, as well as Calabi-Yau threefolds.