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A Note on Flux Induced Superpotentials in String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-12-03 v2

Abstract

Non-vanishing fluxes in M-theory and string theory compactifications induce a superpotential in the lower dimensional theory. Gukov has conjectured the explicit form of this superpotential. We check this conjecture for the heterotic string compactified on a Calabi-Yau three-fold as well as for warped M-theory compactifications on Spin(7) holonomy manifolds, by performing a Kaluza-Klein reduction.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0210131,
  title  = {A Note on Flux Induced Superpotentials in String Theory},
  author = {Melanie Becker and Dragos Constantin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0210131},
  year   = {2010}
}

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