Non-Abelian structures in compactifications of M-theory on seven-manifolds with SU(3) structure
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-09-29 v2
Abstract
We study M-theory compactified on a specific class of seven-dimensional manifolds with SU(3) structure. The manifolds can be viewed as a fibration of an arbitrary Calabi-Yau threefold over a circle, with a U-duality twist around the circle. In some cases we find that in the four dimensional low energy effective theory a (broken) non-Abelian gauge group appears. Furthermore, such compactifications are shown to be dual to previously analyzed compactifications of the heterotic string on K3 x T^2, with background gauge field fluxes on the T^2.
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@article{arxiv.0806.1051,
title = {Non-Abelian structures in compactifications of M-theory on seven-manifolds with SU(3) structure},
author = {Ofer Aharony and Micha Berkooz and Jan Louis and Andrei Micu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.1051},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
35 pages, minor changes; version to appear in JHEP