Computing the spectrum of a heterotic flux vacuum

• Main Authors: Adams, Allan (Contributor), Lapan, Joshua M. (Author)
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics (Contributor)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2012-10-17T16:25:26Z.
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Author Manuscript Aug 31, 2009
We compute the massless spectra of a set of flux vacua of the heterotic string. The vacua we study include well-known non-Kähler T [superscript 2]-fibrations over K3 with SU(3) structure and intrinsic torsion. Following gauged linear sigma models of these vacua into phases governed by asymmetric Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds allows us to compute the spectrum using generalizations of familiar LG-orbifold techniques. We study several four- and six-dimensional examples with spacetime =2 supersymmetry in detail.