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Chiral Four-Dimensional Heterotic String Vacua from Covariant Lattices

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String theory may eventually provide a consistent quantum-mechanical unification of elementary particle physics with gravity. Although there is numerous evidence that superstring theory at its core is a unique theory, it possesses a vast landscape of vacuum states with diverse physical properties. The bulk of this landscape is highly exotic—almost all vacua would not even remotely produce anything resembling our universe. Nevertheless, the prospect of having a unified theory of all fundamental forces and matter particles appearing in nature has spawned a whole discipline, string model building, that already led to countless efforts exploring various corners of the space of string theory ground states. This work contributes to this undertaking, by exhaustively classifying an interesting part of the string landscape given by covariant lattice theories.

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Beye, F. (2017). Introduction. In: Chiral Four-Dimensional Heterotic String Vacua from Covariant Lattices. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0804-7_1

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