Lectures on F-theory compactifications and model building

• Verfasst von: Weigand, Timo [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Lectures on F-theory compactifications and model building
• Verf.angabe: Timo Weigand
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 09.01.2018
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Classical and quantum gravity
• Jahr Quelle: 2010
• Band/Heft Quelle: 27(2010,21) Artikel-Nummer 214004, 40 Seiten
• ISSN Quelle: 1361-6382
• DOI: doi:10.1088/0264-9381/27/21/214004
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1566978912

Abstract

These lecture notes are devoted to formal and phenomenological aspects of F-theory. We begin with a pedagogical introduction to the general concepts of F-theory, covering classic topics such as the connection to type IIB orientifolds, the geometry of elliptic fibrations and the emergence of gauge groups, matter and Yukawa couplings. As a suitable framework for the construction of compact F-theory vacua we describe a special class of Weierstrass models called Tate models, whose local properties are captured by the spectral cover construction. Armed with this technology we proceed with a survey of F-theory grand unified theory (GUT) models, aiming at an overview of basic conceptual and phenomenological aspects, in particular in connection with GUT breaking via hypercharge flux.