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One Loop Corrections to Coupling Constants in IR-regulated String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-06 v2

Abstract

Exact Superstring solutions are constructed moving in 4-D space-time with positive curvature and non-trivial dilaton and antisymmetric tensor fields. The full spectrum of string excitations is derived as a function of moduli fields TiT^{i} and the scale μ2=1/(k+2)\mu^2=1/(k+2) which induced by the non-zero background fields. The spectrum of string excitations has a non-zero mass gap μ2\mu^2 and in the weak curvature limit (μ\mu small) μ2\mu^2 plays the role of a well defined infrared regulator, consistent with modular invariance, gauge invariance, supersymmetry and chirality. The effects of a covariantly constant chomo-magnetic field BB as well as additional curvature can be derived exactly up to one string-loop level. Thus, the one-loop corrections to all couplings (gravitational, gauge and Yukawas) are unambiguously computed and are finite both in the Ultra-Violet and the Infra-Red regime. These corrections are necessary for quantitative string superunification predictions at low energies. Similar calculations are done in the effective field theory. The one-loop corrections to the couplings are also found to satisfy Infrared Flow Equations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9509017,
  title  = {One Loop Corrections to Coupling Constants in IR-regulated String Theory},
  author = {Elias Kiritsis and Costas Kounnas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9509017},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Based on a talk given by the first author at the Trieste Spring Workshop, 1995. Contains some new results