We study aspects of Heterotic/F-theory duality for compactifications with Abelian discrete gauge symmetries. We consider F-theory compactifications on genus-one fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds with n-sections, associated with the Tate-Shafarevich group ℤn. Such models are obtained by studying first a specific toric set-up whose associated Heterotic vector bundle has structure group ℤn. By employing a conjectured Heterotic/F-theory mirror symmetry we construct dual geometries of these original toric models, where in the stable degeneration limit we obtain a discrete gauge symmetry of order two and three, for compactifications to six dimensions. We provide explicit constructions of mirror-pairs for symmetric examples with ℤ2and ℤ3, in six dimensions. The Heterotic models with symmetric discrete symmetries are related in field theory to a Higgsing of Heterotic models with two symmetric abelian U(1) gauge factors, where due to the Stückelberg mechanism only a diagonal U(1) factor remains massless, and thus after Higgsing only a diagonal discrete symmetry of order n is present in the Heterotic models and detected via Heterotic/F-theory duality. These constructions also provide further evidence for the conjectured mirror symmetry in Heterotic/F-theory at the level of fibrations with torsional sections and those with multi-sections.

Cvetič, M., Grassi, A., Poretschkin, M. (2017). Discrete symmetries in Heterotic/F-theory duality and mirror symmetry. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2017(6), 1-25 [10.1007/JHEP06(2017)156].

Discrete symmetries in Heterotic/F-theory duality and mirror symmetry

Grassi, Antonella;
2017

Abstract

We study aspects of Heterotic/F-theory duality for compactifications with Abelian discrete gauge symmetries. We consider F-theory compactifications on genus-one fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds with n-sections, associated with the Tate-Shafarevich group ℤn. Such models are obtained by studying first a specific toric set-up whose associated Heterotic vector bundle has structure group ℤn. By employing a conjectured Heterotic/F-theory mirror symmetry we construct dual geometries of these original toric models, where in the stable degeneration limit we obtain a discrete gauge symmetry of order two and three, for compactifications to six dimensions. We provide explicit constructions of mirror-pairs for symmetric examples with ℤ2and ℤ3, in six dimensions. The Heterotic models with symmetric discrete symmetries are related in field theory to a Higgsing of Heterotic models with two symmetric abelian U(1) gauge factors, where due to the Stückelberg mechanism only a diagonal U(1) factor remains massless, and thus after Higgsing only a diagonal discrete symmetry of order n is present in the Heterotic models and detected via Heterotic/F-theory duality. These constructions also provide further evidence for the conjectured mirror symmetry in Heterotic/F-theory at the level of fibrations with torsional sections and those with multi-sections.
2017
Cvetič, M., Grassi, A., Poretschkin, M. (2017). Discrete symmetries in Heterotic/F-theory duality and mirror symmetry. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2017(6), 1-25 [10.1007/JHEP06(2017)156].
Cvetič, Mirjam; Grassi, Antonella; Poretschkin, Maximilian*
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