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Global SO(10) F-theory GUTs

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Making use of toric geometry we construct a class of global F-theory GUT models. The base manifolds are blowups of Fano threefolds and the Calabi-Yau fourfold is a complete intersection of two hypersurfaces. We identify possible GUT divisors and construct SO(10) models on them using the spectral cover construction. We use a split spectral cover to generate chiral matter on the 10 curves in order to get more degrees of freedom in phenomenology. We use abelian flux to break SO(10) to SU(5) ×U(1) which is interpreted as a flipped SU(5) model. With the GUT Higgses in the SU(5) × U(1) model it is possible to further break the gauge symmetry to the Standard Model. We present several phenomenologically attractive examples in detail.

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    Ching-Ming Chen, Maximilian Kreuzer & Christoph Mayrhofer

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Chen, CM., Knapp, J., Kreuzer, M. et al. Global SO(10) F-theory GUTs. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 57 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2010)057

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