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More Supersymmetric Standard-like Models from Intersecting D6-branes on Type IIA Orientifolds
We present new classes of supersymmetric Standard-like models from type IIA
\IT^6/(\IZ_2\times \IZ_2) orientifold with intersecting D6-branes. D6-branes
can wrap general supersymmetric three-cycles of \IT^6=\IT^2\times \IT^2\times
\IT^2, and any \IT^2 is allowed to be tilted. The models still suffer from
additional exotics, however we obtained solutions with fewer Higgs doublets, as
well as models with all three families of left-handed quarks and leptons
arising from the same intersecting sector, and examples of a genuine left-right
symmetric model with three copies of left-handed and right-handed families of
quarks and leptons.Comment: 16 pages, REVTEX
The Global Gauge Group Structure of F-theory Compactification with U(1)s
We show that F-theory compactifications with abelian gauge factors generally
exhibit a non-trivial global gauge group structure. The geometric origin of
this structure lies with the Shioda map of the Mordell--Weil generators. This
results in constraints on the U(1) charges of non-abelian matter consistent
with observations made throughout the literature. In particular, we find that
F-theory models featuring the Standard Model algebra actually realise the
precise gauge group [SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1)]/Z6. Furthermore, we explore the
relationship between the gauge group structure and geometric (un-)higgsing. In
an explicit class of models, we show that, depending on the global group
structure, an SU(2)xU(1) gauge theory can either unhiggs into an SU(2)xSU(2) or
an SU(3)xSU(2) theory. We also study implications of the charge constraints as
a criterion for the F-theory 'swampland'.Comment: 37 pages; v2: improved derivation of global group structure in
section 2, extended discussion on the 'swampland' conjecture in section 5,
references added, v2 accepted for publication in JHEP; v3: typos correcte
Infra-red fixed points at the boundary
Gauged supergravities (in four and five dimensions) with eight supercharges
and with vector supermultiplets have a unique ultra-violet (UV) fixed point on
a given physical domain \cal M of the space of the scalar fields. We show that
in these models the infra-red (IR) fixed points are located on the boundary of
\cal M, where the space-time metric becomes singular.Comment: 10 pages, Latex, 2 figure
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