Theory Seminar

Computing the charged massless spectrum in (0,2) heterotic compactifications

by Puhm Andrea (TU Wien and CEA Paris)

Europe/Berlin
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Description
We study the heterotic CFT/geometry correspondence for non-rational internal conformal field theories with N=(0,2) supersymmetry through the triality between minimal models, Landau-Ginzburg orbifold theories and sigma models on Calabi-Yau manifolds. We present a counting algorithm that allows to compute the charged massless spectrum of a wide class of SO(10) GUT models. While untwisted sectors can effectively be treated like in (2,2) models, in twisted sectors non-BPS states contribute to the spectrum.