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    Solitons and Yukawa couplings in nearly Kähler flux compactifications


    Dolan, Brian P. and Szabo, Richard J. (2013) Solitons and Yukawa couplings in nearly Kähler flux compactifications. Physical Review D, 88 (066002). ISSN 1550-7998

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    Abstract

    We study vacuum states and symmetric fermions in the equivariant dimensional reduction of the Yang-Mills-Dirac theory over the six-dimensional homogeneous space SU(3)/U(1)×U(1) endowed with a family of SU(3) structures including a nearly Kähler structure. We derive the fixed tree-level scalar potentials of the induced Yang-Mills-Higgs theory and compute the dynamically generated gauge and Higgs boson masses as functions of the metric moduli of the coset space. We find an integrable subsector of the Higgs field theory that is governed by a sine-Gordon–type model whose topological soliton solutions are determined nonperturbatively by the gauge coupling and that tunnel between families of infinitely degenerate vacua. The reduction of the Dirac action for symmetric fermions yields exactly massless chiral fermions containing subsectors that have fixed tree-level Yukawa interactions. We compute dynamical fermion mass matrices explicitly and compare them at different points of the moduli space, some of which support consistent heterotic flux vacua.

    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Solitons; Yukawa couplings; nearly Kähler flux compactifications;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Engineering > Mathematical Physics
    Item ID: 10485
    Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.066002
    Depositing User: Dr. Brian Dolan
    Date Deposited: 14 Feb 2019 12:49
    Journal or Publication Title: Physical Review D
    Publisher: American Physical Society
    Refereed: Yes
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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