Higher derivatives in type II and M-theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2018)127zbMATH Open1387.83103OpenAlexW3101536568MaRDI QIDQ1748809FDOQ1748809

Authors: Thomas W. Grimm, Kilian Mayer, Matthias Weißenbacher 

Publication date: 14 May 2018

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

Abstract: The four- and five-dimensional effective actions of Calabi-Yau threefold compactifications are derived with a focus on terms involving up to four space-time derivatives. The starting points for these reductions are the ten- and eleven-dimensional supergravity actions supplemented with the known eight-derivative corrections that have been inferred from Type II string amplitudes. The corrected background solutions are determined and the fluctuations of the Kahler structure of the compact space and the form-field background are discussed. It is concluded that the two-derivative effective actions for these fluctuations only takes the expected supergravity form if certain additional ten- and eleven-dimensional higher-derivative terms for the form-fields are included. The main results on the four-derivative terms include a detailed treatment of higher-derivative gravity coupled to Kahler structure deformations. This is supplemented by a derivation of the vector sector in reductions to five dimensions. While the general result is only given as an expansion in the fluctuations, a complete treatment of the one-Kahler modulus case is presented for both Type II theories and M-theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08404

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zbMATH Keywords

M-theorystring dualitysupergravity modelssupersymmetric effective theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Local differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian structures (53B35) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Supergravity (83E50) Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25)

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