Dr
Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann
(Virginia Tech)
23/05/2018, 14:00
We systematically construct all torically resolved SO(10) theories theories with possible additional (discrete) Abelian gauge symmetries. We show that most of these models are connected via higgsing or superconformal matter transitions involving small E8 instantons. Motivated by this observations, we classify superconformal matter transitions in 6d SUGRA theories with Abelian and non-Abelian...
Mr
Christoph Liyanage
(Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics)
23/05/2018, 14:20
The classical part of Yukawa couplings from D6-branes is computed by summing over worldsheet instantons. On non-factorisable tori the worldsheet instantons obey selection rules, which depend on the underlying lattice of the torus. Quantum corrections to the couplings are obtained by T-dualizing the setup and computing the overlapping wavefunctions of three chiral matter fields.
Jacob Leedom
(University of California, Berkeley)
23/05/2018, 14:40
We use Pauli-Villars regularization to evaluate the conformal and chiral anomalies in the effective field theories from Z3 and Z7 compactifications of the heterotic string without Wilson lines. We show that parameters for Pauli-Villars chiral multiplets can be chosen in such a way that the anomaly is universal in the sense that its coefficient depends only on a single holomorphic function of...
