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Physics, Particles & Fields
Miguel Montero, Hector Parra De Freitas
Summary: We describe previously unnoticed components of minimally supersymmetric string theories and their spectrum and duality properties. New components are found in nine, eight, and seven dimensions, with different massive object spectra and incomplete lattice of BPS strings. Non-BPS representatives for each charge value are found, satisfying the Completeness Principle. We also analyze theta angles in nonsupersymmetric string theories and clarify the unphysicality of the Type I discrete theta angle proposed in 1304.1551, explaining certain non-perturbative phenomena in O8 planes.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2023)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Manki Kim
Summary: In this note, we prove combinatorial formulas for the Hodge number h(2,1) of prime toric divisors in an arbitrary toric hypersurface Calabi-Yau fourfold Y-4. We show that it is possible to find a toric hypersurface Calabi-Yau in which there are more than h(1,1)(Y-4) non-perturbative superpotential terms with trivial intermediate Jacobian.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2022)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Heliudson Bernardo, Jan Chojnacki, Vincent Comeau
Summary: We investigate the non-linear stability of fixed-point solutions to the alpha'-exact equations in O(d,d) invariant cosmology, considering both with and without matter perturbations. The previous non-linear analysis in literature is reviewed and its compatibility with known linear perturbation results is demonstrated. We also discuss the formal aspects of cosmological perturbations in duality invariant cosmology and establish the existence of time-reparameterization invariant variables for perturbations.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2023)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Mohsen Karkheiran
Summary: The Yukawa textures of effective heterotic models are studied by using singular spectral data, allowing for the dissection of the cohomologies of bundles to identify zero modes with potential non-zero Yukawa couplings. Another advantage is the clear relationship between Yukawa textures in heterotic models and local F-theory models. The idea of generalizing this approach to every elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau with rational sections is proposed at the end of the paper.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Peng Cheng, Ruben Minasian, Stefan Theisen
Summary: We revisit the relation between anomalies in four and six dimensions and the Chern-Simons couplings one dimension below. We argue that the existence of an anomaly cancellation mechanism is a necessary condition for liftability. In addition, the anomaly cancellation and the CS couplings in higher dimensions determine important properties of string-like BPS objects and can be used to impose bounds on admissible theories.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2022)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Benjamin Assel, Yuji Tachikawa, Alessandro Tomasiello
Summary: We introduce a class of 3d theories consisting of strongly-coupled N = 4 systems coupled to N = 3 Chern-Simons gauge multiplets, which exhibit N = 4 enhancements when a peculiar condition on the Chern-Simons levels is met. We also show that some but not all of these N = 4 enhancements can be understood by considering M5-branes on a special class of Seifert manifolds. Our construction provides a large class of N = 4 theories which have not been studied previously.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2023)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Emanuel Malek, Yuho Sakatani, Daniel C. Thompson
Summary: The exceptional Drinfel'd algebra (EDA) is introduced as a Leibniz algebra to explore generalised notions of U-duality in M-theory. It provides an M-theoretic analogue of how a Drinfel'd double encodes generalised T-dualities of strings. The construction of the EDA, illustrated with examples, includes geometric realizations and natural generalizations of classical equations.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Adolfo Guarino, Colin Sterckx
Summary: This work investigates holographic RG flows on the D3-brane for Type IIB S-folds, showing how anisotropic deformations of SYM4 in the UV are connected to S-fold CFT's in the IR with different amounts of supersymmetry and flavour symmetries. Additionally, examples of holographic RG flows between S-fold CFT's are presented, along with a geometric interpretation of axion deformations in terms of monodromies on the internal S-5 when moving around the S-1.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Mohammad R. R. Garousi
Summary: This study shows that the tree-level couplings of the metric, B-field, and dilaton at certain orders can be expressed in terms of torsional Riemann curvature and torsion tensor. The findings support previous literature on couplings through the S-matrix method.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2022)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Aybike Catal-Ozer, Emine Dirioz
Summary: This paper discusses the conditions required to preserve N = 1 supersymmetry in a supersymmetric compactification of Type II supergravity, as well as the solution generating transformation for pure spinor equations. The study shows that non-Abelian T-duality (NATD) is a solution generating transformation for these pure spinor equations.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
David R. Morrison, Washington Taylor
Summary: This study shows that charge completeness in 6D supergravity theories with an F-theory description is related to the Mordell-Weil group, and this equivalence holds for 4D F-theory constructions as well. In many 6D F-theory models, the full charge lattice of the theory is generated by massless charged states.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Arthur Hebecker, Simon Schreyer, Gerben Venken
Summary: There has been recent interest in the possibility of accelerated cosmological expansion in the asymptotic regions of a d-dimensional EFT. It is conjectured that such acceleration is only possible if there are metastable de Sitter vacua in more than d dimensions. This result is in line with Swampland bounds on the potential in the field space asymptotics. Additionally, it is found that the Kaluza-Klein scale always falls below the Hubble scale in these asymptotic decompactification limits.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2023)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Federico Carta, Jakob Moritz
Summary: In this paper, we discuss the issue of pathological metrics caused by negative induced D3 charges on seven-branes in flux compactifications of type IIB string theory, and propose a solution by treating seven-branes as bound states of more microscopic exotic branes. By utilizing the Seiberg-Witten solution of pure SU(N) super Yang-Mills theory, we demonstrate that the low-energy worldvolume dynamics of a stack of n such exotic branes is governed by the (A(1), A(n-1)) Argyres-Douglas theory, resolving the pathological region near the seven-brane. Moreover, we show that the splitting of perturbative seven-branes into constituent branes at the non-perturbative level replaces the problematic region with a region of O(1) Einstein frame volume, ensuring the validity of the KKLT effective field theory.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
Tadashi Okazaki, Douglas J. Smith
Summary: We propose dualities of N = (0, 2) supersymmetric boundary conditions for 3d N = 2 gauge theories with orthogonal and symplectic gauge groups, and show that the boundary 't Hooft anomalies and half-indices perfectly match for each pair of the proposed dual boundary conditions.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Hart Goldman, Ramanjit Sohal, Eduardo Fradkin
Summary: Researchers constructed a Fibonacci state of bosons using non-Abelian dualities, and obtained the Fibonacci state by interlayer clustering of composite vortices along with flux attachment.