04233nam 22007815 450 991025463980332120200704033840.03-319-24618-610.1007/978-3-319-24618-5(CKB)3710000000588163(EBL)4390005(SSID)ssj0001653598(PQKBManifestationID)16432885(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001653598(PQKBWorkID)14982464(PQKB)10437982(DE-He213)978-3-319-24618-5(MiAaPQ)EBC4390005(PPN)192222937(EXLCZ)99371000000058816320160203d2016 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Landscape of Free Fermionic Gauge Models /by Douglas G. Moore1st ed. 2016.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2016.1 online resource (119 p.)Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,2190-5053"Doctoral thesis accepted by Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA."3-319-24616-X Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.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. .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.Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,2190-5053Quantum field theoryString modelsParticles (Nuclear physics)Mathematical physicsQuantum theoryPhysicsQuantum Field Theories, String Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P19048Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P23029Mathematical Physicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M35000Quantum Physicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P19080Mathematical Methods in Physicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P19013Quantum field theory.String models.Particles (Nuclear physics)Mathematical physics.Quantum theory.Physics.Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.Mathematical Physics.Quantum Physics.Mathematical Methods in Physics.539.72Moore Douglas Gauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut49394MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910254639803321The Landscape of Free Fermionic Gauge Models2532455UNINA