PERTURBATIVE COUPLINGS OF VECTOR MULTIPLETS IN N=2 HETEROTIC STRING VACUA

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DEWIT, B
KAPLUNOVSKY, V
LOUIS, J
LUST, D
机构
[1] UNIV TEXAS,DEPT PHYS,THEORY GRP,AUSTIN,TX 78712
[2] UNIV MUNICH,SEKT PHYS,D-80333 MUNICH,GERMANY
[3] INST ADV STUDY,PRINCETON,NJ 08540
[4] HUMBOLDT UNIV BERLIN,INST PHYS,D-10099 BERLIN,GERMANY
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10.1016/0550-3213(95)00291-Y
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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We study the low-energy effective Lagrangian of N = 2 heterotic string vacua at the classical and quantum level. The couplings of the vector multiplets are uniquely determined at the tree level, while the loop corrections are severely constrained by the exact discrete symmetries of the string vacuum. We evaluate the general transformation law of the perturbative prepotential and determine its form for the toroidal compactifications of six-dimensional N = 1 supersymmetric vacua.
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