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Tree-level $R^4$ correction from $O(d,d)$: NS-NS five-point terms

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-11-26 v3

Abstract

The tree-level string effective action reduced from DD to DdD-d dimensions possesses a continuous O(d,d)O(d,d) symmetry, closely related to T-duality. A necessary condition for a higher derivative correction to preserve this symmetry is that certain O(d,d)O(d,d) violating terms which appear in the dimensional reduction have to cancel out. We use this idea to complete the quartic Riemann correction with all terms involving five NS-NS sector fields. The resulting Lagrangian is considerably simpler than expressions that have previously appeared in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.2406.15240,
  title  = {Tree-level $R^4$ correction from $O(d,d)$: NS-NS five-point terms},
  author = {Linus Wulff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.15240},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

19+18 pages; v2: Additional clarifications in introduction. Published version; v3: sign of 2nd term in (B.51) corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-28T17:14:54.961Z