Non-Abelian discrete gauge symmetries in 4d string models
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UAM. Departamento de Física TeóricaPublisher
Springer VerlagDate
2012-09-17Citation
10.1007/JHEP09(2012)059
Journal of High Energy Physics 2012.9 (2012): 059
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1126-6708 (print); 1029-8479 (online)DOI
10.1007/JHEP09(2012)059Funded by
This work has been partially supported by the grants FPA2009-09017, FPA2009-07908, FPA2010-20807 and Consolider-CPAN (CSD2007-00042) from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, HEPHACOS-S2009/ESP1473 from the C.A. de Madrid, AGAUR 2009-SGR-168 from the Generalitat de Catalunya and the contract “UNILHC” PITN-GA-2009-237920 of the European Commission. M.B-G. acknowledges the finantial support of the FPU grant AP2009-0327. F.M. is supported by the Ramón y Cajal programme through the grant RYC-2009-05096 and by the People Programme of FP7 (Marie Curie Auction) through the REA grant agreement PCIG10-GA-2011-304023. D.R. is supported through the FPU grant AP2010-5687Project
Comunidad de Madrid. S2009/ESP-1473/HEPHACOS; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/237920Editor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2012)059Subjects
Compactification and string models; Discrete and finite symmetries; Intersecting branes models; Solitons monopoles and instantons; FísicaNote
Journal of High Energy Physics 2012.9 (2012): 059 reproduced by permission of Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)Rights
© SISSA 2012.Abstract
We study the realization of non-Abelian discrete gauge symmetries in 4d field theory and string theory compactifications. The underlying structure generalizes the Abelian case, and follows from the interplay between gaugings of non-Abelian isometries of the scalar manifold and field identifications making axion-like fields periodic. We present several classes of string constructions realizing non-Abelian discrete gauge symmetries. In particular, compactifications with torsion homology classes, where non-Abelianity arises microscopically from the Hanany-Witten effect, or compactifications with non-Abelian discrete isometry groups, like twisted tori. We finally focus on the more interesting case of magnetized branes in toroidal compactifications and quotients thereof (and their heterotic and intersecting duals), in which the non-Abelian discrete gauge symmetries imply powerful selection rules for Yukawa couplings of charged matter fields. In particular, in MSSM-like models they correspond to discrete flavour symmetries constraining the quark and lepton mass matrices, as we show in specific examples
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Google Scholar:Berasaluce-González, Mikel
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Cámara, Pablo G.
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Marchesano, Fernando
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Regalado, Diego
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Uranga, Angel M.
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