Moduli stabilisation in heterotic string compactifications
Moduli stabilisation in heterotic string compactifications
In this paper we analyze the structure of supersymmetric vacua in compactifications of the heterotic string on certain manifolds with SU(3) structure. We first study the effective theories obtained from compactifications on half-flat manifolds and show that solutions which stabilise the moduli at acceptable values are hard to find. We then derive the effective theories associated with compactification on generalized half-flat manifolds. It is shown that these effective theories are consistent with four-dimensional N = 1 supergravity and that the superpotential can be obtained by a Gukov-Vafa-Witten type formula. Within these generalized models, we find consistent supersymmetric (AdS) vacua at weak gauge coupling, provided we allow for general internal gauge bundles. In simple cases we perform a counting of such vacua and find that a fraction of about 1/1000 leads to a gauge coupling consistent with gauge unification.
superstring Vacua, supersymmetric effective theories
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de Carlos, Beatriz
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Micu, Andrei
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Gurrieri, Sebastien
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Lukas, André
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1 March 2006
de Carlos, Beatriz
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Micu, Andrei
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Gurrieri, Sebastien
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Lukas, André
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de Carlos, Beatriz, Micu, Andrei, Gurrieri, Sebastien and Lukas, André
(2006)
Moduli stabilisation in heterotic string compactifications.
Journal of High Energy Physics, 3 (5), .
(doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/005).
Abstract
In this paper we analyze the structure of supersymmetric vacua in compactifications of the heterotic string on certain manifolds with SU(3) structure. We first study the effective theories obtained from compactifications on half-flat manifolds and show that solutions which stabilise the moduli at acceptable values are hard to find. We then derive the effective theories associated with compactification on generalized half-flat manifolds. It is shown that these effective theories are consistent with four-dimensional N = 1 supergravity and that the superpotential can be obtained by a Gukov-Vafa-Witten type formula. Within these generalized models, we find consistent supersymmetric (AdS) vacua at weak gauge coupling, provided we allow for general internal gauge bundles. In simple cases we perform a counting of such vacua and find that a fraction of about 1/1000 leads to a gauge coupling consistent with gauge unification.
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Published date: 1 March 2006
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superstring Vacua, supersymmetric effective theories
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/39219
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Beatriz de Carlos
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Andrei Micu
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Sebastien Gurrieri
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André Lukas
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