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O-plane couplings at order $\alpha'^2$: one R-R field strength

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-07-15 v2

Abstract

It is known that the anomalous Chern-Simons (CS) coupling of Op_p-plane is not consistent with the T-duality transformations. Compatibility of this coupling with the T-duality requires the inclusion of couplings involving one R-R field strength. In this paper we find such couplings at order α2\alpha'^2. By requiring the R-R and NS-NS gauge invariances, we first find all independent couplings at order α2\alpha'^2. There are 1,6,28,20,19,21,\, 6,\,28,\,20,\, 19,\, 2 couplings corresponding to the R-R field strengths F(p4)F^{(p-4)}, F(p2)\,F^{(p-2)}, F(p)\,F^{(p)}, F(p+2)\,F^{(p+2)}, F(p+4)\,F^{(p+4)} and F(p+6)F^{(p+6)}, respectively. We then impose the T-duality constraint on these couplings and on the CS coupling C(p3)RRC^{(p-3)}\wedge R\wedge R at order α2\alpha'^2 to fix their corresponding coefficients. The T-duality constraint fixes all coefficients in terms of the CS coefficient. They are fully consistent with the partial couplings that have been already found in the literature by the S-matrix method.

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@article{arxiv.2003.05359,
  title  = {O-plane couplings at order $\alpha'^2$: one R-R field strength},
  author = {Mahboube Mashhadi and Mohammad R. Garousi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.05359},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

30 pages, Latex file, no figure;v2 a mistake corrected, some comments added, the version appears in JHEP