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In this work we consider quotients of elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds by freely acting discrete groups and the associated physics of F-theory compactifications on such backgrounds. The process of quotienting a Calabi-Yau geometry produces not only new genus one fibered manifolds, but also new effective 6-dimensional physics. These theories can be uniquely characterized by the much simpler covering space geometry and the symmetry action on it. We use this method to construct examples of F-theory models with an array of discrete gauge groups and non-trivial monodromies, including an example with ℤ6 discrete symmetry.
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Anderson, L.B., Gray, J. & Oehlmann, PK. F-theory on quotients of elliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 131 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2019)131
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