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Type IIB flux vacua from G-theory II

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-23 v3

Abstract

We find analytic solutions of type IIB supergravity on geometries that locally take the form Mink×M4×C\text{Mink}\times M_4\times \mathbb{C} with M4M_4 a generalised complex manifold. The solutions involve the metric, the dilaton, NSNS and RR flux potentials (oriented along the M4M_4) parametrised by functions varying only over C\mathbb{C}. Under this assumption, the supersymmetry equations are solved using the formalism of pure spinors in terms of a finite number of holomorphic functions. Alternatively, the solutions can be viewed as vacua of maximally supersymmetric supergravity in six dimensions with a set of scalar fields varying holomorphically over C\mathbb{C}. For a class of solutions characterised by up to five holomorphic functions, we outline how the local solutions can be completed to four-dimensional flux vacua of type IIB theory. A detailed study of this global completion for solutions with two holomorphic functions has been carried out in the companion paper [1]. The fluxes of the global solutions are, as in F-theory, entirely codified in the geometry of an auxiliary K3K3 fibration over CP1\mathbb{CP}^1. The results provide a geometric construction of fluxes in F-theory.

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@article{arxiv.1411.4786,
  title  = {Type IIB flux vacua from G-theory II},
  author = {Philip Candelas and Andrei Constantin and Cesar Damian and Magdalena Larfors and Jose Francisco Morales},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.4786},
  year   = {2015}
}

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24 pages, including 3 appendices