Higher-order gravitational couplings and modular forms in N=2,D=4 heterotic string compactifications

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Higher-order gravitational couplings and modular forms in \(N=2,D=4\) heterotic string compactifications



Abstract: The restrictions of target--space duality are imposed at the perturbative level on the holomorphic Wilsonian couplings that encode certain higher-order gravitational interactions in N=2,D=4 heterotic string compactifications. A crucial role is played by non-holomorphic corrections. The requirement of symplectic covariance and an associated symplectic anomaly equation play an important role in determining their form. For models which also admit a type-II description, this equation coincides with the holomorphic anomaly equation for type-II compactifications in the limit that a specific K"ahler-class modulus grows large. We explicitly evaluate some of the higher-order couplings for a toroidal compactification with two moduli T and U, and we express them in terms of modular forms.












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