Which String Vibrations Become Which Generations on the Dwork Quintic
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Abstract
We determine, for the heterotic string on the one-parameter family of quintic threefolds, which vibration modes become which families of charged particles. The hundred and one families are labelled by the characters of a symmetry group of order one hundred and twenty-five. Every Yukawa coupling that this symmetry allows is a power of the modulus, and every other coupling vanishes. The invariant deformation pairs each family with exactly one partner, so that fifty families are massless at the Fermat point and none anywhere else, and at the Fermat point the masses are given in closed form by the Gamma function. On the three other one-parameter families of the same type, in weighted projective spaces, the symmetry no longer tells the families apart and some families stay massless at every member. We also prove that the Geometric Selection Conjecture is equivalent to the existence of one viable vacuum fixed by mirror symmetry, and that a free quotient of a Calabi–Yau complete intersection of any of the thirteen one-parameter hypergeometric types never carries three families with the standard embedding; on seven of these types, among them the sextic and dectic pencils, no finite group acts freely at all.
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