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Carrollian limit of NS-NS and Heterotic Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-07-10 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We construct the Carrollian limit of NS--NS and heterotic supergravity through an ultra-relativistic expansion of the fields. An appropriate scaling of the dilaton renders the measure finite and compensates the divergences arising from the NS-NS supergravity Lagrangian, giving a finite action as ww\rightarrow\infty. We then extend the construction to heterotic supergravity (neglecting fermions) by incorporating the non-Abelian gauge field together with the Green--Schwarz (GS) mechanism. The resulting theory contains a finite gauge sector consistently coupled to gravity, and the GS mechanism for the Carrollian 1-form field can be trivialized imposing field redefinitions. Then, we investigate the Carrollian equations of motion by both expanding the relativistic equations and deriving them from a variational principle. We also show that the leading α\alpha'-corrected Riem^2\hat{\rm Riem}^2 contribution remains finite under a rescaling of the string parameter ααcw2\alpha'\rightarrow \frac{\alpha'_c}{w^2}, opening further research towards the full four-derivative effective action. Finally, we discuss the potential connection with the worldsheet formalism of the Carrollian string theory.

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@article{arxiv.2607.09847,
  title  = {Carrollian limit of NS-NS and Heterotic Supergravity},
  author = {Romina Ballesteros and Eric Lescano and Sergio Patiño-López},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.09847},
  year   = {2026}
}

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V1: 25 pages + appendix + references