Effective Field Theories for Local Models in F-Theory and M-Theory
arXiv:0905.0142
Abstract
Requiring a strictly local origin of visible sector phenomenology is perhaps the strongest, most falsifiable condition that one can impose on string theory at the high scale: it at once excludes a vast majority of the string landscape, and yet leads naturally to constructions that can be surprisingly realistic (and familiar). Yet only for local models can gravity be made parametrically weak while keeping the strength of gauge- and Yukawa-couplings fixed--a limit which is well-motivated by low-energy experiments. Conveniently, the entire class of high-scale effective field theories that can arise from such local models in F-theory and M-theory can be classified according to simple, purely group-theoretic rules. In this note, we describe these rules from the viewpoint of an effective field theorist with little interest in the underlying geometry or high-scale physics, and we discuss the general predictions these models have for low-energy phenomenology.
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