BPS-like potential for compactifications of heterotic M-theory?
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-11-08 v2
Abstract
We analyze the possibility to rewrite the action of Horava-Witten theory in a BPS-like form, which means that it is given as a sum of squares of the supersymmetry conditions. To this end we compactify the theory on a seven dimensional manifold of SU(3) structure and rewrite the scalar curvature of the compactification manifold in terms of the SU(3) structure forms. This shows that a BPS-like form cannot be obtained in general, but only for certain types of compactifications.
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@article{arxiv.1109.1974,
title = {BPS-like potential for compactifications of heterotic M-theory?},
author = {Johannes Held},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.1974},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
31 pages, no figures, references added, typos corrected