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Nearly-Kaehler dimensional reduction of the heterotic string

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-20 v1

Abstract

The effective action in four dimensions resulting from the ten-dimensional N=1 heterotic supergravity coupled to N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills upon dimensional reduction over nearly-Kaehler manifolds is discussed. Nearly-Kaehler manifolds are an interesting class of manifolds admitting an SU(3)-structure and in six dimensions all homogeneous nearly-Kaehler manifolds are included in the class of the corresponding non-symmetric coset spaces plus a group manifold. Therefore it is natural to apply the Coset Space Dimensional Reduction scheme using these coset spaces as internal manifolds in order to determine the four-dimensional theory.

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@article{arxiv.1002.3242,
  title  = {Nearly-Kaehler dimensional reduction of the heterotic string},
  author = {Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis and George Zoupanos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.3242},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

11 pages, based on talk given at the Workshop on Cosmology-Strings, 6-13 September 2009, second week of the 9th Hellenic School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity, Corfu, Greece

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