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On Free Quotients of Complete Intersection Calabi-Yau Manifolds
In order to find novel examples of non-simply connected Calabi-Yau
threefolds, free quotients of complete intersections in products of projective
spaces are classified by means of a computer search. More precisely, all
automorphisms of the product of projective spaces that descend to a free action
on the Calabi-Yau manifold are identified.Comment: 39 pages, 3 tables, LaTe
The elliptic genus from split flows and Donaldson-Thomas invariants
We analyze a mixed ensemble of low charge D4-D2-D0 brane states on the
quintic and show that these can be successfully enumerated using attractor flow
tree techniques and Donaldson-Thomas invariants. In this low charge regime one
needs to take into account worldsheet instanton corrections to the central
charges, which is accomplished by making use of mirror symmetry. All the
charges considered can be realized as fluxed D6-D2-D0 and anti-D6-D2-D0 pairs
which we enumerate using DT invariants. Our procedure uses the low charge
counterpart of the picture developed Denef and Moore. By establishing the
existence of flow trees numerically and refining the index factorization
scheme, we reproduce and improve some results obtained by Gaiotto, Strominger
and Yin. Our results provide appealing evidence that the strong split flow tree
conjecture holds and allows to compute exact results for an important sector of
the theory. Our refined scheme for computing indices might shed some light on
how to improve index computations for systems with larger charges.Comment: 37 pages, 12 figure
Supersymmetric Hidden Sectors for Heterotic Standard Models
Within the context of the weakly coupled E 8 × E 8 heterotic string, we study the hidden sector of heterotic standard model compactifications to four-dimensions. Specifically, we present a class of hidden sector vector bundles — composed of the direct sum of line bundles only — that, together with an effective bulk five-brane, renders the heterotic standard model entirely N = 1 supersymmetric. Two explicit hidden sectors are constructed and analyzed in this context; one with the gauge group E 7 × U(1) arising from a single line bundle and a second with an SO(12) × U(1) × U(1) gauge group constructed from the direct sum of two line bundles. Each hidden sector bundle is shown to satisfy all requisite physical constraints within a finite region of the Kähler cone. We also clarify that the first Chern class of the line bundles need not be even in our context, as has often been imposed in the model building literature
Brane Localization and Stabilization via Regional Physics
Extra-dimensional scenarios have become widespread among particle and
gravitational theories of physics to address several outstanding problems,
including cosmic acceleration, the weak hierarchy problem, and the quantization
of gravity. In general, the topology and geometry of the full spacetime
manifold will be non-trivial, even if our ordinary dimensions have the topology
of their covering space. Most compact manifolds are inhomogeneous, even if they
admit a homogeneous geometry, and it will be physically relevant where in the
extra-dimensions one is located. In this letter, we explore the use of both
local and global effects in a braneworld scenario to naturally provide
position-dependent forces that determine and stabilize the location of a single
brane. For illustrative purposes, we consider the 2-dimensional hyperbolic horn
and the Euclidean cone as toy models of the extra-dimensional manifold, and add
a brane wrapped around one of the two spatial dimensions. We calculate the
total energy due to brane tension and bending (extrinsic curvature) as well as
that due to the Casimir energy of a bulk scalar satisfying a Dirchlet boundary
condition on the brane. From the competition of at least two of these effects
there can exist a stable minimum of the effective potential for the brane
location. However, on more generic spaces (on which more symmetries are broken)
any one of these effects may be sufficient to stabilize the brane. We discuss
this as an example of physics that is neither local nor global, but regional.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. PRL submitte
Black Hole Meiosis
The enumeration of BPS bound states in string theory needs refinement.
Studying partition functions of particles made from D-branes wrapped on
algebraic Calabi-Yau 3-folds, and classifying states using split attractor flow
trees, we extend the method for computing a refined BPS index, arXiv:0810.4301.
For certain D-particles, a finite number of microstates, namely polar states,
exclusively realized as bound states, determine an entire partition function
(elliptic genus). This underlines their crucial importance: one might call them
the `chromosomes' of a D-particle or a black hole. As polar states also can be
affected by our refinement, previous predictions on elliptic genera are
modified. This can be metaphorically interpreted as `crossing-over in the
meiosis of a D-particle'. Our results improve on hep-th/0702012, provide
non-trivial evidence for a strong split attractor flow tree conjecture, and
thus suggest that we indeed exhaust the BPS spectrum. In the D-brane
description of a bound state, the necessity for refinement results from the
fact that tachyonic strings split up constituent states into `generic' and
`special' states. These are enumerated separately by topological invariants,
which turn out to be partitions of Donaldson-Thomas invariants. As modular
predictions provide a check on many of our results, we have compelling evidence
that our computations are correct.Comment: 46 pages, 8 figures. v2: minor changes. v3: minor changes and
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Modifying the Sum Over Topological Sectors and Constraints on Supergravity
The standard lore about the sum over topological sectors in quantum field
theory is that locality and cluster decomposition uniquely determine the sum
over such sectors, thus leading to the usual theta-vacua. We show that without
changing the local degrees of freedom, a theory can be modified such that the
sum over instantons should be restricted; e.g. one should include only
instanton numbers which are divisible by some integer p. This conclusion about
the configuration space of quantum field theory allows us to carefully
reconsider the quantization of parameters in supergravity. In particular, we
show that FI-terms and nontrivial Kahler forms are quantized. This analysis
also leads to a new derivation of recent results about linearized supergravity.Comment: 17 pages, minor change
Heterotic Line Bundle Standard Models
In a previous publication, arXiv:1106.4804, we have found 200 models from
heterotic Calabi-Yau compactifications with line bundles, which lead to
standard models after taking appropriate quotients by a discrete symmetry and
introducing Wilson lines. In this paper, we construct the resulting standard
models explicitly, compute their spectrum including Higgs multiplets, and
analyze some of their basic properties. After removing redundancies we find
about 400 downstairs models, each with the precise matter spectrum of the
supersymmetric standard model, with one, two or three pairs of Higgs doublets
and no exotics of any kind. In addition to the standard model gauge group, up
to four Green-Schwarz anomalous U(1) symmetries are present in these models,
which constrain the allowed operators in the four-dimensional effective
supergravity. The vector bosons associated to these anomalous U(1) symmetries
are massive. We explicitly compute the spectrum of allowed operators for each
model and present the results, together with the defining data of the models,
in a database of standard models accessible at
http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/projects/CalabiYau/linebundlemodels/index.html.
Based on these results we analyze elementary phenomenological properties. For
example, for about 200 models all dimension four and five proton decay
violating operators are forbidden by the additional U(1) symmetries.Comment: 55 pages, Latex, 3 pdf figure
Non-simply-laced Lie algebras via F theory strings
In order to describe the appearance in F theory of the non--simply--laced Lie
algebras, we use the representation of symmetry enhancements by means of string
junctions. After an introduction to the techniques used to describe symmetry
enhancement, that is algebraic geometry, BPS states analysis and string
junctions, we concentrate on the latter. We give an explicit description of the
folding of D_{2n} to B_n of the folding of E_6 to F_4 and that of D_4 to G_2 in
terms of junctions and Jordan strings. We also discuss the case of C_n, but we
are unable in this case to provide a string interpretation.Comment: 24 pages, 3 figure
Small RNA analysis in Sindbis virus infected human HEK293 cells
In contrast to the defence mechanism of RNA interference (RNAi) in plants and invertebrates, its role in the innate response to virus infection of mammals is a matter of debate. Since RNAi has a well-established role in controlling infection of the alphavirus Sindbis virus (SINV) in insects, we have used this virus to investigate the role of RNAi in SINV infection of human cells
Linear Sigma Models with Torsion
Gauged linear sigma models with (0,2) supersymmetry allow a larger choice of
couplings than models with (2,2) supersymmetry. We use this freedom to find a
fully linear construction of torsional heterotic compactifications, including
models with branes. As a non-compact example, we describe a family of metrics
which correspond to deformations of the heterotic conifold by turning on
H-flux. We then describe compact models which are gauge-invariant only at the
quantum level. Our construction gives a generalization of symplectic reduction.
The resulting spaces are non-Kahler analogues of familiar toric spaces like
complex projective space. Perturbatively conformal models can be constructed by
considering intersections.Comment: 40 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure; references added; a new section on
supersymmetry added; quantization condition revisite
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