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Effective Action of Matter Fields in Four-Dimensional String Orientifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-11-19 v2

Abstract

We study various aspects of the Kahler metric for matter fields in N=1,2 orientifold compactifications of type IIB string theory. The result has an infrared-divergent part which reproduces the field- theoretical anomalous dimensions, and a moduli-dependent part which comes from N=2 sectors of the orientifold. For the N=2 orientifolds, we also compute the disk amplitude for two matter fields on the boundary and a twisted closed string modulus in the bulk. Our results are in agreement with supersymmetry: the singlet under the SU(2)_R R-symmetry has vanishing coupling, while the coupling of the SU(2)_R triplet does not vanish.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0003185,
  title  = {Effective Action of Matter Fields in Four-Dimensional String Orientifolds},
  author = {P. Bain and M. Berg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0003185},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

24 pages, JHEP LaTex, no figures, v2: references added, typos corrected

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