Higgs Multiplets in Heterotic GUT Models

Abstract

For supersymmetric GUT models from heterotic string theory, built from a stable holomorphic SU(n) vector bundle $V$ on a Calabi-Yau threefold $X$, the net amount of chiral matter can be computed by a Chern class computation. Corresponding computations for the number $N_H$ of Higgses lead for the phenomenologically relevant cases of GUT group SU(5) or SO(10) to consideration of the bundle $\La^2 V$. In a class of bundles where everything can be computed explicitly (spectral bundles on elliptic $X$) we find that the computation for $N_H$ gives a result which is in conflict with expectations. We argue that this discrepancy has its origin in the subtle geometry of the spectral data for $\La^2 V$ and that taking this subtlety into account properly should resolve the problem.

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