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Exploring the landscape of CHL strings on T^d

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-09-15 v2

Abstract

Compactifications of the heterotic string on special T^d/Z_2 orbifolds realize a landscape of string models with 16 supercharges and a gauge group on the left-moving sector of reduced rank d+8. The momenta of untwisted and twisted states span a lattice known as the Mikhailov lattice II_{(d)}, which is not self-dual for d > 1. By using computer algorithms which exploit the properties of lattice embeddings, we perform a systematic exploration of the moduli space for d=1 and 2, and give a list of maximally enhanced points where the U(1)^{d+8} enhances to a rank d+8 non-Abelian gauge group. For d = 1, these groups are simply-laced and simply-connected, and in fact can be obtained from the Dynkin diagram of E_{10}. For d = 2 there are also symplectic and doubly-connected groups. For the latter we find the precise form of their fundamental groups from embeddings ofof lattices into the dual of II_{(2)}. Our results easily generalize to d > 2.

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@article{arxiv.2104.07131,
  title  = {Exploring the landscape of CHL strings on T^d},
  author = {Anamaria Font and Bernardo Fraiman and Mariana Graña and Carmen A. Núñez and Héctor Parra De Freitas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.07131},
  year   = {2021}
}

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65 pages. v2: corrected global groups

R2 v1 2026-06-24T01:10:50.188Z