Matter field Kähler metric in heterotic string theory from localisation

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Abstract: We propose an analytic method to calculate the matter field K"ahler metric in heterotic compactifications on smooth Calabi-Yau three-folds with Abelian internal gauge fields. The matter field K"ahler metric determines the normalisations of the calN=1 chiral superfields, which enter the computation of the physical Yukawa couplings. We first derive the general formula for this K"ahler metric by a dimensional reduction of the relevant supergravity theory and find that its T-moduli dependence can be determined in general. It turns out that, due to large internal gauge flux, the remaining integrals localise around certain points on the compactification manifold and can, hence, be calculated approximately without precise knowledge of the Ricci-flat Calabi-Yau metric. In a final step, we show how this local result can be expressed in terms of the global moduli of the Calabi-Yau manifold. The method is illustrated for the family of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces embedded in mathbbP1imesmathbbP3 and we obtain an explicit result for the matter field K"ahler metric in this case.



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