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Computing the Spectrum of a Heterotic Flux Vacuum

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-06-29 v2

Abstract

We compute the massless spectra of a set of flux vacua of the heterotic string. The vacua we study include well-known non-Kahler T^2-fibrations over K3 with SU(3) structure and intrinsic torsion. Following gauged linear sigma models of these vacua into phases governed by asymmetric Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds allows us to compute the spectrum using generalizations of familiar LG-orbifold techniques. We study several four- and six-dimensional examples with N=2 spacetime supersymmetry in detail.

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@article{arxiv.0908.4294,
  title  = {Computing the Spectrum of a Heterotic Flux Vacuum},
  author = {Allan Adams and Joshua M. Lapan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.4294},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

1+49 pages, updated to JHEP version (added appendix and minor revisions)