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    • Cascading to the MSSM 

      Heckman, Jonathan; Vafa, C.; Verlinde, Herman; Wijnholt, Martijn (Springer Verlag, 2008)
      The MSSM can arise as an orientifold of a pyramid-like quiver in the context of intersecting D-branes. Here we consider quiver realizations of the MSSM which can emerge at the bottom of a duality cascade. We classify all ...
    • F-theory, GUTs, and the Weak Scale 

      Heckman, Jonathan; Vafa, C. (Springer Verlag, 2009)
      In this paper we study a deformation of gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking in a class of local F-theory GUT models where the scale of supersymmetry breaking determines the value of the mu term. Geometrically correlating ...