The Landscape of Free Fermionic Gauge Models

Douglas G. Moore (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XVII, 102 Seiten

2018 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-79648-2 (ISBN)

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In this thesis, the author describes the development of a software framework to systematically construct a particular class of weakly coupled free fermionic heterotic string models, dubbed gauge models. In their purest form, these models are maximally supersymmetric (N = 4), and thus only contain superpartners in their matter sector. This feature makes their systematic construction particularly efficient, and they are thus useful in their simplicity. The thesis first provides a brisk introduction to heterotic strings and the spin-structure construction of free fermionic models. Three systematic surveys are then presented, and it is conjectured that these surveys are exhaustive modulo redundancies. Finally, the author presents a collection of metaheuristic algorithms for searching the landscape for models with a user-specified spectrum of phenomenological properties, e.g. gauge group and number of spacetime supersymmetries. Such algorithms provide the groundwork for extended generic free fermionic surveys.

Dr Douglas Moore is currently with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, having gained his Ph.D. at Baylor University in 2014.

Introduction.- Introduction to Superstrings.- Heterotic Strings and the Free Fermionic Construction.- Surveys of Gauge Models.- Landscape Surveys Through Metaheuristic Algorithms.- Appendix A: The Gauge Framework.- Appendix B: Layer One Statistics.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Springer Theses
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 102 p. 17 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	197 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
Schlagworte	Conformal Anomaly • Free Fermionic Gauge Models • Gauge Fixing • Heterotic String Models • Superstring Action
ISBN-10	3-319-79648-8 / 3319796488
ISBN-13	978-3-319-79648-2 / 9783319796482
Zustand	Neuware