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We quantitatively analyze a quark-lepton flavour model derived from a six-dimensional supersymmetric theory with $SO(10)\times U(1)$ gauge symmetry, compactified on an orbifold with magnetic flux. Two bulk $\mathbf{16}$-plets charged under…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-25 Wilfried Buchmuller , Ketan M. Patel

We investigate fermion mass hierarchies in models with modular flavor symmetries. Several key conclusions arise from the observation that the determinants of mass matrices transform as 1-dimensional vector-valued modular forms. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-01 Mu-Chun Chen , Xueqi Li , Xiang-Gan Liu , Michael Ratz

We investigate stringy constraints on moduli spaces in modular flavor models by analyzing moduli-dependent threshold corrections in heterotic string vacua. While moduli play a crucial role in determining the flavor structure of fermions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-19 Keiya Ishiguro , Takafumi Kai , Tatsuo Kobayashi , Hajime Otsuka

We study modular symmetric quark flavor models without fine-tuning. Mass matrices are written in terms of modular forms, and modular forms in the vicinity of the modular fixed points become hierarchical depending on their residual charges.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-29 Shota Kikuchi , Tatsuo Kobayashi , Kaito Nasu , Shohei Takada , Hikaru Uchida

We study the modular symmetric standard-model effective field theory. We employ the stringy Ansatz on coupling structure that 4-point couplings $y^{(4)}$ of matter fields are written by a product of 3-point couplings $y^{(3)}$ of matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-06 Tatsuo Kobayashi , Hajime Otsuka , Morimitsu Tanimoto , Kei Yamamoto

We show how two principles - strong coupling and discrete symmetry - can work together to generate the flavour structure of the Standard Model. We propose that in the UV the full theory has a discrete flavour symmetry, typically only…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Steven Abel , James Barnard

The moduli space and generalised global symmetries of 3d $\mathcal{N} = 5$ superconformal field theories are investigated, with a focus on the orthosymplectic ABJ theories and their discrete gauging variants. We extend the known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-25 Sebastiano Garavaglia , William Harding , Deshuo Liu , Noppadol Mekareeya

We have investigated the modular binary octahedral group $2O$ as a flavor symmetry to explain the structure of Standard Model. The vector-valued modular forms in all irreducible representations of this group are constructed. We have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-22 Gui-Jun Ding , Xiang-Gan Liu , Jun-Nan Lu , Ming-Hua Weng

S-folds are a non-perturbative generalization of orientifold 3-planes which figure prominently in the construction of 4D $\mathcal{N} = 3$ SCFTs and have also recently been used to realize examples of 4D $\mathcal{N} = 2$ SCFTs. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Jonathan J. Heckman , Craig Lawrie , Thomas B. Rochais , Hao Y. Zhang , Gianluca Zoccarato

Let $\Lambda$ be a basic finite dimensional algebra over an algebraically closed field, presented as a path algebra modulo relations; further, assume that $\Lambda$ is graded by lengths of paths. The paper addresses the classifiability, via…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-11 E. Babson , B. Huisgen-Zimmermann , R. Thomas

We study (4+2n)-dimensional N=1 super Yang-Mills theory on the orbifold background with non-vanishing magnetic flux. In particular, we study zero-modes of spinor fields. The flavor structure of our models is different from one in magnetized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Hiroyuki Abe , Tatsuo Kobayashi , Hiroshi Ohki

The stringent correlations between flavour observables in models with CMFV are consistent with the present data except for the correlation Delta M_{s,d}-epsilon_K. Motivated by the recent work of Barbieri et al, we compare the CMFV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrzej J. Buras , Jennifer Girrbach

Building on the recent work of Mushaandja and Olela-Otafudu~\cite{MushaandjaOlela2025} on modular metric topologies, this paper investigates extended structural properties of modular (pseudo)metric spaces. We provide necessary and…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Philani Rodney Majozi

We construct models with a spontaneously broken $SU(3)_F$ flavour symmetry where three generations of Higgs multiplets transform in a flavour-triplet representation. The models are embedded in a supersymmetric Pati-Salam GUT framework,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-23 Florian Hartmann , Wolfgang Kilian

The Standard Model lacks an organizing principle to describe quark and lepton ``flavours''. Neutrino oscillation experiments show that leptons mix very differently from quarks, adding a major challenge to the flavour puzzle. We briefly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Gui-Jun Ding , Jose W. F. Valle

We investigate the implications for fermion mass models in heterotic orbifolds of the modular symmetry mixing twisted states localized at different fixed points. We show that, unlike in the case of continuous gauge symmetries, the mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Thomas Dent

We discuss the $SU(5)$ grand unified extension of flavour models with multiple modular symmetries. The proposed model involves two modular $S_4$ groups, one acting in the charged fermion sector, associated with a modulus field value…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-06 Stephen F. King , Ye-Ling Zhou

We give a lattice-theoretic characterization for a manifold of $\mathrm{OG}10$ type to be birational to some moduli space of (twisted) sheaves on a K3 surface. We apply it to the Li-Pertusi-Zhao variety of $\mathrm{OG}10$ type associated to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Camilla Felisetti , Franco Giovenzana , Annalisa Grossi

Modular invariance has recently paved new promising directions in flavor model building. Motivated by this development, we present in this work the first implementation of the $S_3$ modular symmetry within the Pati-Salam unification…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-18 Mohamed Belfkir , Mohamed Amin Loualidi , Salah Nasri

We describe a new class of supersymmetric orientifolds which combine the world-sheet parity transformation with a complex conjugation in the compact directions. As an example, we investigate in detail the orientifold of the Z_3 toroidal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Ralph Blumenhagen , Lars Goerlich , Boris Kors