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Generic matter representations in 6D supergravity theories

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
dc.creator Taylor IV, Washington
dc.creator Turner, Andrew Patrick
dc.date 2021-03-04T16:08:00Z
dc.date 2021-03-04T16:08:00Z
dc.date 2019-05
dc.date 2019-01
dc.date 2020-06-26T13:00:54Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:12:00Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:12:00Z
dc.identifier 1029-8479
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130082
dc.identifier Taylor, Washington and Andrew P. Turner. "Generic matter representations in 6D supergravity theories." Journal of High Energy Physics 2019, 5 (May 2019): 81.
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/279127
dc.description In six-dimensional supergravity, there is a natural sense in which matter lying in certain representations of the gauge group is “generic,” in that other “exotic” matter representations require more fine tuning. From considerations of the dimensionality of the moduli space and anomaly cancellation conditions, we find that the generic sets of matter representations are well-defined for 6D supergravity theories with gauge groups containing arbitrary numbers of nonabelian factors and U(1) factors. These generic matter representations also match with those that arise in the most generic F-theory constructions, both in 6D and in 4D, with non-generic matter representations requiring more exotic singularity types. The analysis of generic versus exotic matter illuminates long-standing puzzles regarding F-theory models with multiple U(1) factors and provides a useful framework for analyzing the 6D “swampland” of apparently consistent low-energy theories that cannot be realized through known string constructions. We note also that the matter content of the standard model is generic by the criteria used here only if the global structure is SU(3)c × SU(2)L × U(1)Y/ℤ6.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
dc.relation https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)081
dc.relation Journal of High Energy Physics
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution
dc.rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.source Springer Berlin Heidelberg
dc.title Generic matter representations in 6D supergravity theories
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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