F-theory vacua with gauge symmetry
Abstract
Discrete gauge groups naturally arise in F-theory compactifications on genus-one fibered Calabi–Yau manifolds. Such geometries appear in families that are parameterized by the Tate–Shafarevich group of the genus-one fibration. While the F-theory compactification on any element of this family gives rise to the same physics, the corresponding M-theory compactifications on these geometries differ and are obtained by a fluxed circle reduction of the former. In this note, we focus on an element of order three in the Tate–Shafarevich group of the general cubic. We discuss how the different M-theory vacua and the associated discrete gauge groups can be obtained by Higgsing of a pair of five-dimensional U(1) symmetries. The Higgs fields arise from vanishing cycles in I2-fibers that appear at certain codimension two loci in the base. As a result, we explicitly identify all three curves that give rise to the corresponding Higgs fields. In this analysis the investigation of different resolved phases of the underlying geometry plays a crucial rôle.
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- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1198721
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1454254
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0013528; NSF PHY05-51164
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Nuclear Physics. B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Nuclear Physics. B Journal Volume: 898 Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0550-3213
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- Netherlands
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Cvetič, Mirjam, Donagi, Ron, Klevers, Denis, Piragua, Hernan, and Poretschkin, Maximilian. F-theory vacua with Z 3 gauge symmetry. Netherlands: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.07.011.
Cvetič, Mirjam, Donagi, Ron, Klevers, Denis, Piragua, Hernan, & Poretschkin, Maximilian. F-theory vacua with Z 3 gauge symmetry. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.07.011
Cvetič, Mirjam, Donagi, Ron, Klevers, Denis, Piragua, Hernan, and Poretschkin, Maximilian. Tue .
"F-theory vacua with Z 3 gauge symmetry". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.07.011.
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title = {F-theory vacua with Z 3 gauge symmetry},
author = {Cvetič, Mirjam and Donagi, Ron and Klevers, Denis and Piragua, Hernan and Poretschkin, Maximilian},
abstractNote = {Discrete gauge groups naturally arise in F-theory compactifications on genus-one fibered Calabi–Yau manifolds. Such geometries appear in families that are parameterized by the Tate–Shafarevich group of the genus-one fibration. While the F-theory compactification on any element of this family gives rise to the same physics, the corresponding M-theory compactifications on these geometries differ and are obtained by a fluxed circle reduction of the former. In this note, we focus on an element of order three in the Tate–Shafarevich group of the general cubic. We discuss how the different M-theory vacua and the associated discrete gauge groups can be obtained by Higgsing of a pair of five-dimensional U(1) symmetries. The Higgs fields arise from vanishing cycles in I2-fibers that appear at certain codimension two loci in the base. As a result, we explicitly identify all three curves that give rise to the corresponding Higgs fields. In this analysis the investigation of different resolved phases of the underlying geometry plays a crucial rôle.},
doi = {10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.07.011},
journal = {Nuclear Physics. B},
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place = {Netherlands},
year = {Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.07.011
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