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Heterotic String Compactifications on Half-flat Manifolds II

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-18 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we continue the analysis of heterotic string compactifications on half-flat mirror manifolds by including the 10-dimensional gauge fields. It is argued, that the heterotic Bianchi identity is solved by a variant of the standard embedding. Then, the resulting gauge group in four dimensions is still E6 despite the fact that the Levi-Civita connection has SO(6) holonomy. We derive the associated four-dimensional effective theories including matter field terms for such compactifications. The results are also extended to more general manifolds with SU(3) structure.

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@article{arxiv.0709.1932,
  title  = {Heterotic String Compactifications on Half-flat Manifolds II},
  author = {Sebastien Gurrieri and Andre Lukas and Andrei Micu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.1932},
  year   = {2009}
}

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31 pages

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