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Consistent truncation on Calabi-Yau and Nearly-K\"ahler manifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-02-24 v1

Abstract

We complete and extend the analysis of arXiv:1903.10504 in several directions: we put the 4d theory, arising from the IIA consistent truncation of the universal sector of Calabi-Yau compactification, in a form manifestly consistent with 4d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 supergravity. We go beyond the universal sector and construct the 4d effective action of IIA compactified on Calabi-Yau's with h1,1=1h^{1,1}=1, h2,11h^{2,1}\geq1, in the presence of background flux and fermionic condensates. For ALE gravitational instantons, we show that the putative quartic gravitino condensate is non-negative, as required for the existence of (formal) de Sitter solutions of the 4d theory. We discuss some of the issues in promoting these formal solutions to full-fledged string theory de Sitter solutions. We also extend the Nearly-K\"ahler consistent truncation of arXiv:1810.06344 to the complete bosonic sector of one vector multiplet and one hypermultiplet.

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@article{arxiv.2002.09359,
  title  = {Consistent truncation on Calabi-Yau and Nearly-K\"ahler manifolds},
  author = {Dimitrios Tsimpis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.09359},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

23 pages. Based on a talk presented at the Corfu Summer Institute 2019 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity" (CORFU2019), 31 August - 25 September 2019, Corfu, Greece