Geometry and Topology Seminar

Teng Fei, Columbia University

"A construction of infinitely many solutions to the Strominger system"

The Strominger system is a system of PDEs describing the compactification of heterotic strings with torsion. Mathematically it can be thought of as a generalization of Ricci-flat metrics on non-Kähler Calabi-Yau 3-folds. In this talk we present newly obtained smooth solutions to the Strominger system on infinitely many compact non-Kähler Calabi-Yau 3-folds with distinct topological types and sets of Hodge numbers. This is a joint work with Zhijie Huang and Sebastien Picard.

MC 5413