Higgs Bundles and String Phenomenology
Algebraic Geometry
2012-01-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
String phenomenology is the branch of string theory concerned with making contact with particle physics. The original models involved compactifying ten-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on an internal Calabi-Yau three-fold. In recent years, this picture has been extended to compactifications of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in seven, eight or nine dimensions. We review some of this progress and explain the fundamental role played by Higgs bundles in this story.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1201.2520,
title = {Higgs Bundles and String Phenomenology},
author = {Martijn Wijnholt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.2520},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
16p, 2 figs, LaTeX. To appear in the proceedings of String-Math 2011