Five-brane thresholds and membrane instantons in four-dimensional heterotic M-theory

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.11.019zbMATH Open1109.81065arXivhep-th/0502225OpenAlexW1997915578MaRDI QIDQ877351FDOQ877351

Authors: Luca Carlevaro, Jean-Pierre Derendinger 

Publication date: 20 April 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The effective four-dimensional supergravity of M-theory compactified on the orbifold S^1/Z_2 and a Calabi-Yau threefold includes in general moduli supermultiplets describing massless modes of five-branes. For each brane, one of these fields corresponds to fluctuations along the interval. The five-brane also leads to modifications of the anomaly-cancelling terms in the eleven-dimensional theory, including gauge contributions located on their world-volumes. We obtain the interactions of the brane "interval modulus" predicted by these five-brane-induced anomaly-cancelling terms and we construct their effective supergravity description. In the condensed phase, these interaction terms generate an effective non-perturbative superpotential which can also be interpreted as instanton effects of open membranes stretching between five-branes and the S^1/Z_2 fixed hyperplanes. Aspects of the vacuum structure of the effective supergravity are also briefly discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0502225

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) (3)-folds (14J30) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81)

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