2017/08/30 by Damian Kaloni Mayorga Pena, Pena, Damian Kaloni Mayorga, Roberto Valandro +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1708.09452
57 pages plus appendices, 8 figures
arxiv created 2017/08/30 · arxiv updated 2017/09/01
We consider the Sen limit of several global F-theory compactifications, some of which exhibit an MSSM-like spectrum. We show that these indeed have a consistent limit where they can be viewed as resulting from an intersecting D-brane configuration in type IIB. We discuss the match of the fluxes and the chiral spectrum in detail. We find that some D5-tadpole canceling gauge fluxes do not lift to harmonic vertical four-form fluxes in F-theory. We discuss the connection between splitting of curves at weak coupling and remnant discrete symmetries.