The orbifolder: A tool to study the low-energy effective theory of heterotic orbifolds

The orbifolder is a program developed in C++ that computes and analyzes the low-energy effective theory of heterotic orbifold compactifications. The program includes routines to compute the massless spectrum, to identify the allowed couplings in the superpotential, to automatically generate large sets of orbifold models, to identify phenomenologically interesting models (e.g. MSSM-like models) and to analyze their vacuum configurations.Program summaryProgram title: orbifolderCatalogue identifier: AELR_v1_0Program summary URL:http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/AELR_v1_0.htmlProgram obtainable from: CPC Program Library, Queenʼs University, Belfast, N. IrelandLicensing provisions: GNU General Public License version 3No. of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 145 572No. of bytes in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 930 517Distribution format: tar.gzProgramming language:C++Computer: Personal computerOperating system: Tested on Linux (Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11, SuSE 11)Word size: 32 bits or 64 bitsClassification: 11.1External routines: Boost (http://www.boost.org/), GSL (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/)Nature of problem: Calculating the low-energy spectrum of heterotic orbifold compactifications.Solution method: Quadratic equations on a lattice; representation theory; polynomial algebra.Running time: Less than a second per model.