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We describe new four-dimensional type II compactifications with \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 supersymmetry, based on asymmetric Gepner models for K3 × T 2. In more than half of these models, all the K3 moduli are lifted, giving at low energies \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 supergravity with the STU vector multiplets and no hypermultiplets.
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Israël, D., Thiéry, V. Asymmetric Gepner models in type II. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 11 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2014)011
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