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We show that massless fields with large abelian charges (up to at least q = 21) can be constructed in 6D F-theory models with a U(1) gauge group. To show this, we explicitly construct F-theory Weierstrass models with nonabelian gauge groups that can be broken to U(1) theories with a variety of large charges. Determining the maximum abelian charge allowed in such a theory is key to eliminating what seems currently to be an infinite swampland of apparently consistent U(1) supergravity theories with large charges.
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Raghuram, N., Taylor, W. Large U(1) charges in F-theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 182 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2018)182
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