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$\mathcal{N}=1$ Supersymmetric Double Field Theory and the generalized Kerr-Schild Ansatz

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-12-02 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We construct the N=1\mathcal{N} = 1 supersymmetric extension of the generalized Kerr-Schild ansatz in the flux formulation of Double Field Theory. We show that this ansatz is compatible with N=1\mathcal{N} = 1 supersymmetry as long as it is not written in terms of generalized null vectors. Supersymmetric consistency is obtained through a set of conditions that imply linearity of the generalized gravitino perturbation and unrestricted perturbations of the generalized background dilaton and dilatino. As a final step we parametrize the previous theory in terms of the field content of the low energy effective 1010-dimensional heterotic supergravity and we find that the perturbation of the 1010-dimensional vielbein, Kalb-Ramond field and gravitino can be written in terms of a pair of null vectors, as expected.

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@article{arxiv.2002.07751,
  title  = {$\mathcal{N}=1$ Supersymmetric Double Field Theory and the generalized Kerr-Schild Ansatz},
  author = {Eric Lescano and Jesús A. Rodríguez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.07751},
  year   = {2020}
}

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34 pages. We include the gauge sector and applications considering gaugino condensation