Approaches to String Model Building

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For the following, it would be nice to have a short description paragraph each. Should link to a few review articles here; links to original work belong more to the separate pages for each subtopic.

Calabi-Yau compactifications

Heterotic Orbifold constructions

One of the oldest approaches to string phenomenology. Started in 198x, several successful three-family models have since been constructed. A full classification is possible. Some reviews are:

• D. Bailin, A. Love, Orbifold compactifications of string theory, Phys. Rept. 315 (1999) 285. [Spires, from author]
• F. Quevedo, Trieste Lectures 2002.
• P. Candelas, Lectures On Complex Manifolds, Trieste 1987. [Spires]
• J.E. Kim, ???.
• J. Louis, Phenomenological aspects of string theory, Trieste 1998. [Spires]

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Fermionic formulation of Orbifolds

Bosonic lattice formulation

• W. Lerche, A.N. Schellekens, N.P. Warner, Lattices And Strings, Phys. Rept. 117 (1989) 1. [Spires]

D-Branes at Singularities

Intersecting D-Branes

Non-perturbative heterotic constructions

Flux compactifications

String Landscape approaches

Other models

• D. Gepner, Space-Time Supersymmetry In Compactified String Theory And Superconformal Models, Nucl. Phys. B 296 (1988) 757. [Spires]
• Y. Kazama, H. Suzuki, New N=2 Superconformal Field Theories And Superstring Compactification, Nucl. Phys. B 321 (1989) 232. [Spires]

Problems to be solved

gauge couplings

Yukawa couplings

Kähler potential

soft breaking terms

stable compactification

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