@article{895688,
      author = {Moore, Douglas G.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/753673},
      title = {The landscape of free fermionic gauge models [electronic  resource] /},
      abstract = {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.},
      number = {895688},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24618-5},
      recid = {753673},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 102 pages).},
}