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arxiv: 1502.04986 · v1 · pith:OHNIHB73new · submitted 2015-02-17 · ✦ hep-th · hep-ph

Discrete symmetries in the heterotic-string landscape

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keywords modelsheterotic-stringdiscretedescribelandscapemathbbmodeloperator
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We describe a new type of discrete symmetry that relates heterotic-string models. It is based on the spectral flow operator which normally acts within a general N=(2,2) model and we use this operator to construct a map between N=(2,0) models. The landscape of N=(2,0) models is of particular interest among all heterotic-string models for two important reasons: Firstly, N=1 spacetime SUSY requires (2,0) superconformal invariance and secondly, models with the well motivated by the Standard Model SO(10) unification structure are of this type. This idea was inspired by a new discrete symmetry in the space of fermionic $\mathbb{Z}_2\times \mathbb{Z}_2$ heterotic-string models that exchanges the spinors and vectors of the SO(10) GUT group, dubbed spinor-vector duality. We will describe how to generalize this to arbitrary internal rational Conformal Field Theories.

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