BPS-like potential for compactifications of heterotic M-theory?

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2011)136MaRDI QIDQ489485zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Johannes Held

Publication date 20 January 2015

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1974

zbMATH Keywords

M-theoryflux compactificationssuperstring vacua

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We analyze the possibility to rewrite the action of Horava-Witten theory in a BPS-like form, which means that it is given as a sum of squares of the supersymmetry conditions. To this end we compactify the theory on a seven dimensional manifold of SU(3) structure and rewrite the scalar curvature of the compactification manifold in terms of the SU(3) structure forms. This shows that a BPS-like form cannot be obtained in general, but only for certain types of compactifications.

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