The magic square and half-hypermultiplets in F-theory

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTAC022MaRDI QIDQ5082499zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rinto Kuramochi, Shun'ya Mizoguchi, Taro Tani

Publication date 16 June 2022

Published in PTEP. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09272

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibrations, degenerations in algebraic geometry (14D06) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Dimensional compactification in quantum field theory (81T33)

Abstract: In six-dimensional F-theory/heterotic string theory, half-hypermultiplets arise only when they correspond to particular quaternionic K"ahler symmetric spaces, which are mostly associated with the Freudenthal-Tits magic square. Motivated by the intriguing singularity structure previously found in such F-theory models with a gauge group $SU(6)$,$SO(12)$ or $E_7$, we investigate, as the final magical example, an F-theory on an elliptic fibration over a Hirzebruch surface of the non-split $I_6$ type, in which the unbroken gauge symmetry is supposed to be $Sp(3)$. We find significant qualitative differences between the previous F-theory models associated with the magic square and the present case. We argue that the relevant half-hypermultiplets arise at the $E_6$ points, where half-hypermultiplets $$ of $SU(6)$ would have appeared in the split model. We also consider the problem on the non-local matter generation near the $D_6$ point. After stating what the problem is, we explain why this is so by using the recent result that a split/non-split transition can be regarded as a conifold transition.

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