English

Effective action of bosonic string theory at order $ \alpha'^2 $

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-02-14 v3

Abstract

Recently, it has been shown that the gauge invariance requires the minimum number of independent couplings for BB-field, metric and dilaton at order α2\alpha'^2 to be 60. In this paper we fix the corresponding 60 parameters in string theory by requiring the couplings to be invariant under the global T-duality transformations. The Riemann cubed terms are exactly the same as the couplings that have been found by the S-matrix calculations.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1907.06500,
  title  = {Effective action of bosonic string theory at order $ \alpha'^2 $},
  author = {Mohammad R. Garousi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.06500},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

18 pages, Latex file, no figure; V2: the version appears in EPJC; V3: a sign typo corrected