W=0 Complex Structure Moduli Stabilization on CM-type K3 x K3 Orbifolds:---Arithmetic, Geometry and Particle Physics---

Abstract: It is an important question in string compactification whether complex structure moduli stabilization inevitably ends up with a vacuum expectation value of the superpotential < W > of the order of the Planck scale cubed. Any thoughts on volume stabilization and inflation in string theory, as well as on phenomenology of supersymmetric Standard Models, will be affected by the answer to this question. In this work, we follow an idea for making < W > $\simeq$ 0 where the internal manifold has a vacuum complex structure with arithmetic characterization, and address Calabi--Yau fourfold compactification of F-theory. The moduli space of K3 x K3 orbifolds contain infinitely many such vacua. Arithmetic conditions for a < W > =0 flux are worked out, and then all the K3 moduli have supersymmetric mass. Possible gauge groups, matter representations and discrete symmetries are studied for the case of Z_2-orbifolds.