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Minkowski spacetime and non-Ricci-flat compactification in heterotic supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-09-10 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We compactify the ten-dimensional spacetime in heterotic supergravity leaving four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. We search for nonsupersymmetric, non-Ricci-flat solutions of the equations of motion with the quadratic curvature term. By assuming that the extradimensional spaces are products of 2-manifolds, three types of solutions are found. They are S2×T2×H2/ΓS^2\times T^2 \times H^2/\Gamma, S2×H2/Γ×H2/ΓS^2\times H^2/\Gamma \times H^2/\Gamma, and S2×S2×H2/ΓS^2\times S^2 \times H^2/\Gamma, where H2/ΓH^2/\Gamma denotes a compact hyperbolic manifold. The metrics can be written explicitly, and they can be applied to phenomenology.

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@article{arxiv.2106.03625,
  title  = {Minkowski spacetime and non-Ricci-flat compactification in heterotic supergravity},
  author = {Takanao Tsuyuki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.03625},
  year   = {2021}
}

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9 pages, v2: published version