25–28 Aug 2025
Albano Building 2
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Computing Yukawa couplings from string theory

25 Aug 2025, 10:30
40m
Auditorium 5 (Albano Building 2)

Auditorium 5

Albano Building 2

Speaker

Andre Lukas (University of Oxford)

Description

I will discuss how to compute Yukawa couplings in realistic heterotic string models, using machine learning techniques. More specifically, I will explains how training of neural networks can be used to find the main geometrical ingredients of string theory Yukawa couplings, namely approximate Ricci-flat metric on Calabi-Yau manifolds, Hermitian Yang-Mill connections and harmonic bundle-valued forms. The techniques are illustrated for a specific string model with a low-energy standard model spectrum.

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