Three-forms in Supergravity and Flux Compactifications
High Energy Physics - Theory
2018-03-28 v3
Abstract
We present a duality procedure that relates conventional four-dimensional matter-coupled N=1 supergravities to dual formulations in which auxiliary fields are replaced by field-strengths of gauge three-forms. The duality promotes specific coupling constants appearing in the superpotential to vacuum expectation values of the field-strengths. We then apply this general duality to type IIA string compactifications on Calabi-Yau orientifolds with RR fluxes. This gives a new supersymmetric formulation of the corresponding effective four-dimensional theories which includes gauge three-forms.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1706.09422,
title = {Three-forms in Supergravity and Flux Compactifications},
author = {Fotis Farakos and Stefano Lanza and Luca Martucci and Dmitri Sorokin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09422},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
37 pages, v3: minor corrections