Moduli stabilisation in heterotic string compactifications

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DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/005zbMATH Open1226.81179arXivhep-th/0507173OpenAlexW2128431447MaRDI QIDQ648655FDOQ648655


Authors: Andrei Micu, Sebastien Gurrieri, André Lukas, Beatriz de Carlos Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 28 November 2011

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

Abstract: In this paper we analyze the structure of supersymmetric vacua in compactifications of the heterotic string on certain manifolds with SU(3) structure. We first study the effective theories obtained from compactifications on half-flat manifolds and show that solutions which stabilise the moduli at acceptable values are hard to find. We then derive the effective theories associated with compactification on generalised half-flat manifolds. It is shown that these effective theories are consistent with four-dimensional N=1 supergravity and that the superpotential can be obtained by a Gukov-Vafa-Witten type formula. Within these generalised models, we find consistent supersymmetric (AdS) vacua at weak gauge coupling, provided we allow for general internal gauge bundles. In simple cases we perform a counting of such vacua and find that a fraction of about 1/1000 leads to a gauge coupling consistent with gauge unification.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0507173




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