Published August 2001 | Version v1
Journal article

Standard-model bundles on non-simply connected Calabi-Yau threefolds

  • 1. Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA (United States)
  • 2. European Organization for Nuclear Research, Theory Division, Geveva (CH) and Department of Physics, Rockefeller University, New York, NY (US)

Description

We give a proof of the existence of G=SU(5), stable holomorphic vector bundles on elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds with fundamental group Z2. The bundles we construct have Euler characteristic 3 and an anomaly that can be absorbed by M-theory five-branes. Such bundles provide the basis for constructing the standard model in heterotic M-theory. They are also applicable to vacua of the weakly coupled heterotic string. We explicitly present a class of three family models with gauge group SU(3)CxSU(2)LxU(1)Y. (author)

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Available online at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://jhep.sissa.it/

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Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
08
Journal Issue
2001
Journal Page Range
p. vp
ISSN
1126-6708