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T duality and Wald entropy formula in the Heterotic Superstring effective action at first order in $\alpha'$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-09-08 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider the compactification on a circle of the Heterotic Superstring effective action to first order in the Regge slope parameter α\alpha' and re-derive the α\alpha'-corrected Buscher rules first found in arXiv:hep-th/9506156 , proving the T duality invariance of the dimensionally-reduced action to that order in α\alpha'. We use Iyer and Wald's prescription to derive an entropy formula that can be applied to black-hole solutions which can be obtained by a single non-trivial compactification on a circle and discuss its invariance under the α\alpha'-corrected T duality transformations. This formula has been successfully applied to α\alpha'-corrected 4-dimensional non-extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes in arXiv:1910.14324 and we apply it here to a heterotic version of the Strominger-Vafa 5-dimensional extremal black hole.

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@article{arxiv.2005.11272,
  title  = {T duality and Wald entropy formula in the Heterotic Superstring effective action at first order in $\alpha'$},
  author = {Zachary Elgood and Tomas Ortin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.11272},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Misprints in intermediate equations corrected in agreement with the erratum submitted to the journal. Final results not affected