Linear models for flux vacua

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2008.V12.N4.A4zbMATH Open1145.81395arXivhep-th/0611084MaRDI QIDQ943572FDOQ943572

Authors: Allan Adams, Morten Ernebjerg, Joshua M. Lapan 

Publication date: 9 September 2008

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct worldsheet descriptions of heterotic flux vacua as the IR limits of N=2 gauge theories. Spacetime torsion is incorporated via a 2d Green-Schwarz mechanism in which a doublet of axions cancels a one-loop gauge anomaly. Manifest (0,2) supersymmetry and the compactness of the gauge theory instanton moduli space suggest that these models, which include Fu-Yau models, are stable against worldsheet instanton effects, implying that they, like Calabi-Yaus, may be smoothly extended to solutions of the exact beta functions. Since Fu-Yau compactifications are dual to KST-type flux compactifications, this provides a microscopic description of these IIB RR-flux vacua.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0611084

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) 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) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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