A note on the RG flow in (N=1, D=4) supergravity and applications to Z₃ orbifold/orientifold compactification

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00678-7MaRDI QIDQ1594750zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Smith

Publication date 6 February 2001

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0006318

zbMATH Keywords

gauge couplingsKä hler potentialunification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: We apply the standard approach of RG flow for the gauge couplings in N=1 D=4 Supergravity to show how to match its results with the heterotic $Z_3$ orbifold and Type IIB $Z_3$ orientifold-based models. Using only supergravity, anomaly cancellation and the requirement of unification we determine the part of the K"ahler potential of the model invariant under the symmetries of the model. For heterotic orbifolds/type IIB orientifolds, this shows that the lowest order K"ahler term of the dilaton has the structure $$ in agreement with string calculations. The structure of the holomorphic coupling is also found from arguments of unification and anomaly cancellation under the conjectured $SL(2,Z{)}_{T_i}$ symmetries of the models. A consequence of the latter is that in the case of the $Z_3$ orientifold the holomorphic coupling necessarily contains a part with coefficient proportional to the one loop beta function, in agreement with string calculations which do not however assume this symmetry. This gives circumstantial evidence for the existence of this symmetry at string level in $Z_3$ orientifold. Finally, we comment on the values of the unification scale and examine the possibility of mirage unification in which the effective unification scale may be situated far above the string scale.

Recommendations

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