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We constructed several families of elliptic K3 surfaces with Mordell-Weil groups of ranks from 1 to 4. We studied F-theory compactifications on these elliptic K3 surfaces times a K3 surface.
Gluing pairs of identical rational elliptic surfaces with nonzero Mordell-Weil ranks yields elliptic K3 surfaces, the Mordell-Weil groups of which have nonzero ranks. The sum of the ranks of the singularity type and the Mordell-Weil group of any rational elliptic surface with a global section is 8. By utilizing this property, families of rational elliptic surfaces with various nonzero Mordell-Weil ranks can be obtained by choosing appropriate singularity types. Gluing pairs of these rational elliptic surfaces yields families of elliptic K3 surfaces with various nonzero Mordell-Weil ranks.
We also determined the global structures of the gauge groups that arise in F-theory compactifications on the resulting K3 surfaces times a K3 surface. U(1) gauge fields arise in these compactifications.
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Kimura, Y. F-theory models on K3 surfaces with various Mordell-Weil ranks — constructions that use quadratic base change of rational elliptic surfaces. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 48 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2018)048
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