48 Crepant Paths to $\text{SU}(2)\times \text{SU}(3)$

Abstract

We study crepant resolutions of Weierstrass models of $\text{SU}(2)\times \text{SU}(3)$-models, whose gauge group describes the non-abelian sector of the Standard Model. The $\text{SU}(2)\times \text{SU}(3)$-models are elliptic fibrations characterized by the collision of two Kodaira fibers with dual graphs that are affine Dynkin diagrams of type ${\tilde{\text{A}}}_1$ and ${\tilde{\text{A}}}_2$. Once we eliminate those collisions that do not have crepant resolutions, we are left with six distinct collisions that are related to each other by deformations. Each of these six collisions has eight distinct crepant resolutions whose flop diagram is a hexagon with two legs attached to two adjacent nodes. Hence, we consider 48 distinct resolutions that are connected to each other by deformations and flops. We determine topological invariants---such as Euler characteristics, Hodge numbers, and triple intersections of fibral divisors---for each of the crepant resolutions. We analyze the physics of these fibrations when used as compactifications of M-theory and F-theory on Calabi--Yau threefolds yielding 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$ and 6d $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ supergravity theories respectively. We study the 5d prepotential in the Coulomb branch of the theory and check that the six-dimensional theory is anomaly-free and compatible with a 6d uplift from a 5d theory.

arXiv comment44 pages+Appendix(18 pages with 9 Tables), 32 Tables, 23 Figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1805.03214

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