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On Vector Bundles and Chiral Matter in N=1 Heterotic Compactifications

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

In this note we derive the net number of generations of chiral fermions in heterotic string compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds with certain SU(n) vector bundles, for n odd, using the parabolic approach for bundles. We compare our results with the spectral cover construction for bundles and make a comment on the net number interpretation in F-theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9802202,
  title  = {On Vector Bundles and Chiral Matter in N=1 Heterotic Compactifications},
  author = {B. Andreas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9802202},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8pp,latex,minor changes,note added