Discrete Gauge Groups in F-theory Models on Genus-One Fibered Calabi-Yau 4-folds without Section

Abstract

We determine the discrete gauge symmetries that arise in F-theory compactifications on examples of genus-one fibered Calabi-Yau 4-folds without a section. We construct genus-one fibered Calabi-Yau 4-folds using Fano manifolds, cyclic 3-fold covers of Fano 4-folds, and Segre embeddings of products of projective spaces. Discrete ${\mathbb{Z}}_5$, ${\mathbb{Z}}_4$, ${\mathbb{Z}}_3$ and ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ symmetries arise in these constructions. We introduce a general method to obtain multisections for several constructions of genus-one fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds. The pullbacks of hyperplane classes under certain projections represent multisections to these genus-one fibrations. We determine the degrees of these multisections by computing the intersection numbers with fiber classes. As a result, we deduce the discrete gauge symmetries that arise in F-theory compactifications. This method applies to various Calabi-Yau genus-one fibrations.

29 pages. Some clarifications, updated acknowledgments, added references

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