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  • Letter
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Natural F-theory constructions of standard model structure from E7 flux breaking

Shing Yan Li* and Washington Taylor†

  • Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

  • *sykobeli@mit.edu
  • †wati@mit.edu
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Phys. Rev. D 106, L061902 – Published 12 September, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.L061902

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We describe a broad class of 4D F-theory models in which an E7 gauge group is broken through fluxes to the standard model gauge group. These models are ubiquitous in the 4D F-theory landscape and can arise from flux breaking of most models with E7 factors. While in many cases the E7 breaking leads to exotic matter, there are large families of models in which the standard model gauge group and chiral matter representations are obtained through an intermediate SU(5) group. The number of generations of matter appearing in these models can easily be small. We demonstrate the possibility of getting three generations of chiral matter as the preferred matter content.

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Phys. Rev. D 106, L061902– Published 12 September, 2022
  • Received 24 December 2021
  • Accepted 24 August 2022
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