Heterotic stringy corrections to metrics of toroidal orbifolds and their resolutions
Pompey Leung (Department of Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan); Hajime Otsuka (Department of Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan)
We explicitly analyze corrections to heterotic supergravity on toroidal orbifolds and their resolutions, which play important roles in string phenomenology as well as moduli stabilization. Using a conformal factor ansatz that is valid only for four-dimensional geometries, we obtain a closed expression for the metric corrections in the case of several orbifold limits of K3, namely where , 3, 4, 6. However, we find that nonstandard embedding requires the inclusion of five-branes on such orbifolds. We also numerically investigate the behavior around orbifold fixed points by considering the metric correction on the resolution of a singularity. In this case, a nontrivial conformal factor can be obtained in nonstandard embedding even without five-branes. In the same manner, we generalize our analysis to study metric corrections on and its resolution described by a complex line bundle over . Further prospects of utilizing these corrected metrics as a novel approach in obtaining realistic or semirealistic Yukawa couplings are discussed.