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Why is Compactification restricted to Toroids, Calabi-Yau et al?

I think I've missed this point somehow. I've just started with Compactification and so far, I don't really see why it is restricted to the above mentioned types of manifolds?

I have to admit, when studying T-Duality, I simply took Toroidal compactification as a kind of "why not"-thing.

Could someone point me in the right direction? Been skipping through my books to look for some explanation of this, but couldn't find anything. Thanks!

Michael
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