(24.07.) Asymmetric orbifolds, rank reduction and heterotic islands
Anamaría Font (Max-Planck Institut Potsdam & Univ. central de Venezuela)
24.07.2025 at 16:15
In this talk I will consider toroidal asymmetric orbifolds of the heterotic string preserving all 16 supercharges, developing a general formalism to study components of the moduli space characterized by rank reduction of the gauge group. The formalism will be used to construct recently conjectured rank-reduced six-dimensional models, including islands with no massless moduli other than the dilation.
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