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Minkowski flux vacua of type II supergravities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-03-05 v3

Abstract

We study flux compactifications of 10d type II supergravities to 4d Minkowski space-time, supported by parallel orientifold Op-planes with 3 \leq p \leq 8. With some restrictions, the 4d Ricci scalar can be written as a negative sum of squares involving BPS-like conditions. Setting all squares to zero provides automatically a solution to 10d equations of motion. This way, we characterize a broad class, if not the complete set, of Minkowski flux vacua. We also conjecture an extension to include non-geometric fluxes. None of our results rely on supersymmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1609.00729,
  title  = {Minkowski flux vacua of type II supergravities},
  author = {David Andriot and Johan Blåbäck and Thomas Van Riet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.00729},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

5 pages; v2: Phys. Rev. Lett. published version; v3: Minor revision, one extra constraint required to obtain our class of 10d solutions