Type-II Calabi-Yau compactifications, T-duality and special geometry in general spacetime signature
Abstract
We obtain the bosonic Lagrangians of vector and hypermultiplets coupled to four-dimensional supergravity in signatures , and (2,2) by compactification of type-II string theories in signatures (0,10), (1,9) and (2,8) on a Calabi-Yau threefold. Depending on the signature and the distinctions between type-IIA/IIA/IIB/IIB/IIB' the resulting scalar geometries are special K\"ahler or special para-K\"ahler for vector multiplets and quaternion-K\"ahler or para-quaternion K\"ahler for hypermultiplets. By spacelike and timelike reductions we obtain three-dimensional supergravity theories coupled to two sets of hypermultiplets. We determine the c-maps relating vector to hypermultiplets, and show how the four-dimensional theories are related by spacelike, timelike and mixed, signature-changing T-dualities.
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@article{arxiv.2111.09017,
title = {Type-II Calabi-Yau compactifications, T-duality and special geometry in general spacetime signature},
author = {M. Medevielle and T. Mohaupt and G. Pope},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09017},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
42 pages (including 10 page appendix), 14 tables, 2 figures. v2: LaTeX problem with arXiv identifiers fixed