A five-brane modulus in the effective N=1 supergravity of M-theory

被引：35

作者：

Derendinger, JP ^{[1
]}

Sauser, R ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Neuchatel, Inst Phys, CH-2000 Neuchatel, Switzerland

来源：

NUCLEAR PHYSICS B | 2001年 / 598卷 / 1-2期

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D O I：

10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00773-2

中图分类号：

O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];

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摘要：

Five-branes lead in four dimensions to massless N = 1 supermultiplets if M-theory is compactified on S-1/Z (2)x (a Calabi-Yau threefold). One of them describes the modulus associated with the position of the five-brane along the circle S-1. We derive the effective four-dimensional supergravity of this multiplet and its coupling to bulk moduli and to Yang-Mills and charged matter multiplets located on 22 fixed planes. The dynamics of the five-brane modes is obtained by reduction and supersymmetrization of the covariant five-brane bosonic action. Our construction respects all symmetries of M-theory, including the self-duality of the brane antisymmetric tensor. Corrections to gauge couplings are strongly constrained by this self-duality property. The brane contribution to the effective scalar potential is formally similar to a renormalization of the dilaton. The vacuum structure is not modified. Altogether, the impact of the five-brane modulus on the effective supergravity is reminiscent of string one-loop corrections produced by standard compactification moduli. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：87 / 114

页数：28

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