Supersymmetry breaking in the effective Horava-Witten supergravity and quantization rules

被引：47

作者：

Dudas, E ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] CERN, TH, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

[2] Univ Paris Sud, Phys Theor & Hautes Energies Lab, CNRS URA D0063, F-91405 Orsay, France

来源：

PHYSICS LETTERS B | 1998年 / 416卷 / 3-4期

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D O I：

10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01308-7

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We analyze in detail supersymmetry breaking by compactification of the fifth dimension in M-theory in the compactification pattern 11d-->5d-->4d and find that a superpotential is generated for the complex fields coming from 5d hypermultiplets, namely the dilaton S and the complex structure moduli. Using general arguments it is shown that these fields are always stabilized such that they don't contribute to supersymmetry breaking, which is completely saturated by the Kahler moduli coming from vector multiplets. It is shown that this mechanism is the strong-coupling analog of the Rohm-Witten quantization of the antisymmetric tensor field strength of string theories. The effect of a gaugino condensate on one of the boundaries is also considered. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.

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页码：309 / 318

页数：10

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