Large U(1) charges in F-theory

We show that massless fields with large abelian charges (up to at least q = 21) can be constructed in 6D F-theory models with a U(1) gauge group. To show this, we explicitly construct F-theory Weierstrass models with nonabelian gauge groups that can be broken to U(1) theories with a variety of large...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Raghuram, Nikhil, Taylor IV, Washington
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119179
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0586-871X
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8566-6706
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Summary:We show that massless fields with large abelian charges (up to at least q = 21) can be constructed in 6D F-theory models with a U(1) gauge group. To show this, we explicitly construct F-theory Weierstrass models with nonabelian gauge groups that can be broken to U(1) theories with a variety of large charges. Determining the maximum abelian charge allowed in such a theory is key to eliminating what seems currently to be an infinite swampland of apparently consistent U(1) supergravity theories with large charges.