Effective field theory for magnetic compactifications

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2017)052zbMATH Open1378.83081arXiv1611.03798OpenAlexW2594571230MaRDI QIDQ680660FDOQ680660

W. Buchmüller, E. Dudas, Markus Dierigl, Julian Schweizer

Publication date: 23 January 2018

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

Abstract: Magnetic flux plays an important role in compactifications of field and string theories in two ways, it generates a multiplicity of chiral fermion zero modes and it can break supersymmetry. We derive the complete four-dimensional effective action for N=1 supersymmetric Abelian and non-Abelian gauge theories in six dimensions compactified on a torus with flux. The effective action contains the tower of charged states and it accounts for the mass spectrum of bosonic and fermionic fields as well as their level-dependent interactions. This allows us to compute quantum corrections to the mass and couplings of Wilson lines. We find that the one-loop corrections vanish, contrary to the case without flux. This can be traced back to the spontaneous breaking of a symmetry of the six-dimensional theory by the background gauge field, with the Wilson line as Goldstone boson.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03798

zbMATH Keywords

field theories in higher dimensionsflux compactificationssupersymmetric effective theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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Cited In (13)

• Modular symmetry and zeros in magnetic compactifications
• Wilson lines and UV sensitivity in magnetic compactifications
• Magnons and BFKL
• Flux compactifications and naturalness
• Magnetic discrete gauge field in the confining vacua and the supersymmetric index
• Cancellation of one-loop corrections to scalar masses in Yang-Mills theory with flux compactification
• Quantum corrections for d-brane models with broken supersymmetry
• The toric SO(10) F-theory landscape
• Wavefunctions on \(S^2\) with flux and branes
• Roles of electric field/time-dependent Wilson line in toroidal compactification with or without magnetic fluxes
• Effects of localized \(\mu\)-terms at the fixed points in magnetized orbifold models
• Wilson-line scalar as a Nambu-Goldstone boson in flux compactifications and higher-loop corrections
• Mass spectrum in a six-dimensional \(\mathrm{SU}(n)\) gauge theory on a magnetized torus

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