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Publications (22)

hep-th2013

Elliptic Fibrations with Rank Three Mordell-Weil Group: F-theory with U(1) x U(1) x U(1) Gauge Symmetry

Mirjam Cvetic, Denis Klevers, Hernan Piragua +1

We analyze general F-theory compactifications with U(1) x U(1) x U(1) Abelian gauge symmetry by constructing the general elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds with a rank three…

hep-th2010

Five-Brane Superpotentials and Heterotic/F-theory Duality

Thomas W. Grimm, Tae-Won Ha, Albrecht Klemm +1

Under heterotic/F-theory duality it was argued that a wide class of heterotic five-branes is mapped into the geometry of an F-theory compactification manifold. In four-dimensional…

hep-th2015

General U(1)xU(1) F-theory Compactifications and Beyond: Geometry of unHiggsings and novel Matter Structure

Mirjam Cvetic, Denis Klevers, Hernan Piragua +1

We construct the general form of an F-theory compactification with two U(1) factors based on a general elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau manifold with Mordell-Weil group of rank two.…

hep-th2015

The Arithmetic of Elliptic Fibrations in Gauge Theories on a Circle

Thomas W. Grimm, Andreas Kapfer, Denis Klevers

The geometry of elliptic fibrations translates to the physics of gauge theories in F-theory. We systematically develop the dictionary between arithmetic structures on elliptic curv…

hep-th2014

Chiral Four-Dimensional F-Theory Compactifications With SU(5) and Multiple U(1)-Factors

Mirjam Cvetič, Antonella Grassi, Denis Klevers +1

We develop geometric techniques to determine the spectrum and the chiral indices of matter multiplets for four-dimensional F-theory compactifications on elliptic Calabi-Yau fourfol…

hep-th2016

Three-Index Symmetric Matter Representations of SU(2) in F-Theory from Non-Tate Form Weierstrass Models

Denis Klevers, Washington Taylor

We give an explicit construction of a class of F-theory models with matter in the three-index symmetric (4) representation of SU(2). This matter is realized at codimension two loci…

hep-th2015

F-Theory Vacua with Z_3 Gauge Symmetry

Mirjam Cvetič, Ron Donagi, Denis Klevers +2

Discrete gauge groups naturally arise in F-theory compactifications on genus-one fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds. Such geometries appear in families that are parameterized by the Tate…

hep-th2013

Explicit de Sitter Flux Vacua for Global String Models with Chiral Matter

Michele Cicoli, Denis Klevers, Sven Krippendorf +3

We address the open question of performing an explicit stabilisation of all closed string moduli (including dilaton, complex structure and Kaehler moduli) in fluxed type IIB Calabi…

hep-th2010

Computing Brane and Flux Superpotentials in F-theory Compactifications

Thomas W. Grimm, Tae-Won Ha, Albrecht Klemm +1

In four-dimensional F-theory compactifications with N=1 supersymmetry the fields describing the dynamics of space-time filling 7-branes are part of the complex structure moduli spa…

hep-th2012

Anomaly Cancellation And Abelian Gauge Symmetries In F-theory

Mirjam Cvetič, Thomas W. Grimm, Denis Klevers

We study 4D F-theory compactifications on singular Calabi-Yau fourfolds with fluxes. The resulting N=1 effective theories can admit non-Abelian and U(1) gauge groups as well as cha…

hep-th2015

Origin of Abelian Gauge Symmetries in Heterotic/F-theory Duality

Mirjam Cvetic, Antonella Grassi, Denis Klevers +2

We study aspects of heterotic/F-theory duality for compactifications with Abelian gauge symmetries. We consider F-theory on general Calabi-Yau manifolds with a rank one Mordell-Wei…

hep-th2008

Compact heterotic orbifolds in blow-up

Stefan Groot Nibbelink, Denis Klevers, Felix Ploger +2

We compare heterotic string models on orbifolds with supergravity models on smooth compact spaces, obtained by resolving the orbifold singularities. Our main focus is on heterotic…

hep-th2011

Five-Brane Superpotentials, Blow-Up Geometries and SU(3) Structure Manifolds

Thomas W. Grimm, Albrecht Klemm, Denis Klevers

We investigate the dynamics of space-time filling five-branes wrapped on curves in heterotic and orientifold Calabi-Yau compactifications. We first study the leading N=1 scalar pot…

hep-th2017

Exotic matter on singular divisors in F-theory

Denis Klevers, David R. Morrison, Nikhil Raghuram +1

We analyze exotic matter representations that arise on singular seven-brane configurations in F-theory. We develop a general framework for analyzing such representations, and work…

hep-th2015

Three-Family Particle Physics Models from Global F-theory Compactifications

Mirjam Cvetic, Denis Klevers, Damián Kaloni Mayorga Peña +2

We construct four-dimensional, globally consistent F-theory models with three chiral generations, whose gauge group and matter representations coincide with those of the Minimal Su…

hep-th2014

F-Theory on all Toric Hypersurface Fibrations and its Higgs Branches

Denis Klevers, Damian Kaloni Mayorga Pena, Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann +2

We consider F-theory compactifications on genus-one fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds with their fibers realized as hypersurfaces in the toric varieties associated to the 16 reflexive 2…

hep-th2012

Fluxes and Warping for Gauge Couplings in F-theory

Thomas W. Grimm, Denis Klevers, Maximilian Poretschkin

We compute flux-dependent corrections in the four-dimensional F-theory effective action using the M-theory dual description. In M-theory the 7-brane fluxes are encoded by four-form…

hep-th2013

F-Theory Compactifications with Multiple U(1)-Factors: Addendum

Mirjam Cvetic, Denis Klevers, Hernan Piragua

The purpose of this note is to extend the results obtained in [arXiv:1303.6970] in two ways. First, the six-dimensional F-theory compactifications with U(1) x U(1) gauge symmetry o…

hep-th2009

The D5-brane effective action and superpotential in N=1 compactifications

Thomas W. Grimm, Tae-Won Ha, Albrecht Klemm +1

The four-dimensional effective action for D5-branes in generic compact Calabi-Yau orientifolds is computed by performing a Kaluza-Klein reduction. The N=1 Kaehler potential, the su…

hep-th2011

Holomorphic Couplings In Non-Perturbative String Compactifications

Denis Klevers

In this review article we present an analysis of several aspects of four-dimensional, non-perturbative N=1 compactifications of string theory. Our study focuses on brane dynamics a…

hep-th2014

On finiteness of Type IIB compactifications: Magnetized branes on elliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds

Mirjam Cvetič, James Halverson, Denis Klevers +1

The string landscape satisfies interesting finiteness properties imposed by supersymmetry and string-theoretical consistency conditions. We study N=1 supersymmetric compactificatio…

hep-th2013

F-Theory Compactifications with Multiple U(1)-Factors: Constructing Elliptic Fibrations with Rational Sections

Mirjam Cvetič, Denis Klevers, Hernan Piragua

We study F-theory compactifications with U(1)xU(1) gauge symmetry on elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds with a rank two Mordell-Weil group. We find that the natural presenta…