Diagonally gauged anomaly-free 6D supergravities and their vacua

Abstract

We describe a bounded search for local and global anomaly-free six-dimensional $(1,0)$ models with tensor number $T=1$ and gauge group containing a diagonal abelian factor $U(1{)}_{R+}$. The abelian factor is the diagonal combination of the usual gauged $U(1{)}_R$ and a $U(1)\subset Sp(n_H)$ acting on hypermultiplets. We have searched for locally and globally anomaly-free $G_1\times U(1{)}_{R+}$ and $G_1\times G_2\times U(1{)}_{R+}$ models, subject to restrictions on the ranks of the simple factors and on the maximal charges carried by matter. We find that, unlike the case of $U(1{)}_R$ gauged models which are relatively rare, the diagonally gauged ones offer a rich landscape. We also study the 6D vacua of these models and find that they admit supersymmetric 6D Minkowski vacua, for which the diagonal nature of the R-symmetry gauging is necessary.

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