IIA string theory on Calabi-Yau fourfolds with background fluxes

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DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00442-XzbMATH Open0997.81078arXivhep-th/0203267MaRDI QIDQ1611202FDOQ1611202

Sergei Gukov, M. Haack

Publication date: 21 August 2002

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

Abstract: Looking for string vacua with fixed moduli, we study compactifications of type IIA string theory on Calabi-Yau fourfolds in the presence of generic Ramond-Ramond fields. We explicitly derive the (super)potential induced by Ramond-Ramond fluxes performing a Kaluza-Klein reduction of the ten-dimensional effective action. This can be conveniently achieved in a formulation of the massive type IIA supergravity where all Ramond-Ramond fields appear in a democratic way. The result agrees with the general formula for the superpotential written in terms of calibrations. We further notice that for generic Ramond-Ramond fluxes all geometric moduli are stabilized and one finds non-supersymmetric vacua at positive values of the scalar potential.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0203267




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