%0 Journal Article %T Yukawa Couplings in Heterotic Compactification %A Lara B. Anderson %A James Gray %A Dan Grayson %A Yang-Hui He %A Andre Lukas %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %R 10.1007/s00220-010-1033-8 %X We present a practical, algebraic method for efficiently calculating the Yukawa couplings of a large class of heterotic compactifications on Calabi-Yau three-folds with non-standard embeddings. Our methodology covers all of, though is not restricted to, the recently classified positive monads over favourable complete intersection Calabi-Yau three-folds. Since the algorithm is based on manipulating polynomials it can be easily implemented on a computer. This makes the automated investigation of Yukawa couplings for large classes of smooth heterotic compactifications a viable possibility. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.2186v1