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Generalized Riemann curvature corrections to type II supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-08-09 v3

Abstract

We observe that the replacement of the Riemann curvature with the generalized Riemann curvature into the corrections to the type II supergravity at order α3\alpha'^3 which are in terms of the contractions of four Riemann curvatures R4R^4, is not fully consistent with the S-matrix elements in the superstring theory. In particular, they produce non-zero S-matrix elements for odd number of B-field strengths which are not consistent with the string theory results. Using the consistency of the couplings with the linear T-duality as a guiding principle, we consider all T-duality invariant couplings and fix their coefficients by requiring them to be consistent with the S-matrix elements. The new Lagrangian density is then equivalent to the replacement of the generalized Riemann curvature into the expression t8t8R4t_8t_8R^4.

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@article{arxiv.1303.4034,
  title  = {Generalized Riemann curvature corrections to type II supergravity},
  author = {Mohammad R. Garousi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.4034},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

7 pages, Latex file, no figure; V3: Some clarifications and references added, it appears in PRD