3–7 Jul 2023
Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon
Asia/Seoul timezone

Upper bound on the Atiyah–Singer index from tadpole cancellation

4 Jul 2023, 14:00
15m
Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon

Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon

Science and Culture Center, Institute for Basic Science Daejeon, Korea

Speaker

Hajime Otsuka

Description

I will discuss upper bounds on the generation number of chiral zero-modes in heterotic and Type II string theories. We find that tadpole cancellation conditions lead to the small generation number of quarks and leptons.

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