Special Pizza Seminar

(Non-)Perturbative Aspects of Black Hole Attractors and Moduli Stabilization for Two-Parameter Calabi-Yau's

Aalok Misra

ICTP

We consider two examples of (orientifolds of) type II compactifications on two-parameter Calabi-Yau's, one with a single singular conifold locus and the other with multiple singular conifold loci in their respective moduli spaces. For the former, we study non-supersymmetric black hole attractors and make some connections with arithmetic and algebraic geometry. For the latter, after a moduli-space scan in terms of the periods, we show the possibility of extended “area codes” in the context of flux moduli stabilization and we solve the “inverse (flux) problem” and show the existence of “fake superpotentials” for (non)supersymmetric black holes.