Work

Three-forms in supergravity and flux compactifications

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: We present a duality procedure that relates conventional four-dimensional matter-coupled $$\mathcal{N}=1$$ supergravities to dual formulations in which auxiliary fields are replaced by field strengths of gauge three-forms. The duality promotes specific coupling constants appearing in the superpotential to vacuum expectation values of the field strengths. We then apply this general duality to type IIA string compactifications on Calabi–Yau orientifolds with RR fluxes. This gives a new supersymmetric formulation of the corresponding effective four-dimensional theories which includes gauge three-forms.

Source: The European Physical Journal C

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5185-y

Authors: Fotis Farakos, Stefano Lanza, Luca Martucci, Dmitri Sorokin

Institutions: University of Padua, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Russian Science Foundation, Australian Research Council

Awards: Advances in HIgher Spin Gauge Theory, G5307067160