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The Gaugings of Maximal D=6 Supergravity
We construct the most general gaugings of the maximal D=6 supergravity. The
theory is (2,2) supersymmetric, and possesses an on-shell SO(5,5) duality
symmetry which plays a key role in determining its couplings. The field content
includes 16 vector fields that carry a chiral spinor representation of the
duality group. We utilize the embedding tensor method which determines the
appropriate combinations of these vectors that participate in gauging of a
suitable subgroup of SO(5,5). The construction also introduces the magnetic
duals of the 5 two-form potentials and 16 vector fields.Comment: 34 pages, latex, reference added, typo's corrected and minor
improvements mad
Observing Brane Inflation
Linking the slow-roll scenario and the Dirac-Born-Infeld scenario of
ultra-relativistic roll (where, thanks to the warp factor, the inflaton moves
slowly even with an ultra-relativistic Lorentz factor), we find that the KKLMMT
D3/anti-D3 brane inflation is robust, that is, enough e-folds of inflation is
quite generic in the parameter space of the model. We show that the
intermediate regime of relativistic roll can be quite interesting
observationally. Introducing appropriate inflationary parameters, we explore
the parameter space and give the constraints and predictions for the
cosmological observables in this scenario. Among other properties, this
scenario allows the saturation of the present observational bound of either the
tensor/scalar ratio r (in the intermediate regime) or the non-Gaussianity f_NL
(in the ultra-relativistic regime), but not both.Comment: 31 pages, 12 figures; typo correcte
Type IIB Theory on Half-flat Manifolds
In this note we derive the low-energy effective action of type IIB theory
compactified on half-flat manifolds and we show that this precisely coincides
with the low-energy effective action of type IIA theory compactified on a
Calabi-Yau manifold in the presence of NS three-form fluxes. We provide in this
way a further check of the recently formulated conjecture that half-flat
manifolds appear as mirror partners of Calabi-Yau manifolds when NS fluxes are
turned on.Comment: 15 pages, no figure
de Sitter String Vacua from Kahler Uplifting
We present a new way to construct de Sitter vacua in type IIB flux
compactifications, in which the interplay of the leading perturbative and
non-perturbative effects stabilize all moduli in dS vacua at parametrically
large volume. Here, the closed string fluxes fix the dilaton and the complex
structure moduli while the universal leading perturbative quantum correction to
the Kahler potential together with non-perturbative effects stabilize the
volume Kahler modulus in a dS_4-vacuum. Since the quantum correction is known
exactly and can be kept parametrically small, this construction leads to
calculable and explicitly realized de Sitter vacua of string theory with
spontaneously broken supersymmetry.Comment: 1+21 pages, 5 figures, LaTeX, uses JHEP3 class, v3: conforms with
published versio
On the Effective Description of Large Volume Compactifications
We study the reliability of the Two-Step moduli stabilization in the type-IIB
Large Volume Scenarios with matter and gauge interactions. The general analysis
is based on a family of N=1 Supergravity models with a factorizable Kaehler
invariant function, where the decoupling between two sets of fields without a
mass hierarchy is easily understood. For the Large Volume Scenario particular
analyses are performed for explicit models, one of such developed for the first
time here, finding that the simplified version, where the Dilaton and Complex
structure moduli are regarded as frozen by a previous stabilization, is a
reliable supersymmetric description whenever the neglected fields stand at
their leading F-flatness conditions and be neutral. The terms missed by the
simplified approach are either suppressed by powers of the Calabi-Yau volume,
or are higher order operators in the matter fields, and then irrelevant for the
moduli stabilization rocedure. Although the power of the volume suppressing
such corrections depends on the particular model, up to the mass level it is
independent of the modular weight for the matter fields. This at least for the
models studied here but we give arguments to expect the same in general. These
claims are checked through numerical examples. We discuss how the factorizable
models present a context where despite the lack of a hierarchy with the
supersymmetry breaking scale, the effective theory still has a supersymmetric
description. This can be understood from the fact that it is possible to find
vanishing solution for the auxiliary components of the fields being integrated
out, independently of the remaining dynamics. Our results settle down the
question on the reliability of the way the Dilaton and Complex structure are
treated in type-IIB compactifications with large compact manifold volumina.Comment: 23 pages + 2 appendices (38 pages total). v2: minor improvements,
typos fixed. Version published in JHE
N=4 Supergravity Lagrangian for Type IIB Orientifold on T^6/Z_2 in Presence of Fluxes and D3-Branes
We derive the Lagrangian and the transformation laws of N=4 gauged
supergravity coupled to matter multiplets whose sigma-model of the scalars is
SU(1,1)/U(1)x SO(6,6+n)/SO(6)xSO(6+n) and which corresponds to the effective
Lagrangian of the Type IIB string compactified on the T^6/Z_2 orientifold with
fluxes turned on and in presence of n D3-branes. The gauge group is T^12 x G
where G is the gauge group on the brane and T^12 is the gauge group on the bulk
corresponding to the gauged translations of the R-R scalars coming from the R-R
four--form. The N=4 bulk sector of this theory can be obtained as a truncation
of the Scherk-Schwarz spontaneously broken N=8 supergravity. Consequently the
full bulk spectrum satisfies quadratic and quartic mass sum rules, identical to
those encountered in Scherk-Schwarz reduction gauging a flat group. This theory
gives rise to a no scale supergravity extended with partial super-Higgs
mechanism.Comment: 49 pages, LaTex, 2 figures. Misprints corrected, more comments adde
Stringy Instantons and Cascading Quivers
D-brane instantons can perturb the quantum field theories on space-time
filling D-branes by interesting operators. In some cases, these D-brane
instantons are novel "stringy" effects (not interpretable directly as instanton
effects in the low-energy quantum field theory), while in others the D-brane
instantons can be directly interpreted as field theory effects. In this note,
we describe a situation where both perspectives are available, by studying
stringy instantons in quivers which arise at simple Calabi-Yau singularities.
We show that a stringy instanton which wraps an unoccupied node of the quiver,
and gives rise to a non-perturbative mass in the space-time field theory, can
be reinterpreted as a conventional gauge theory effect by going up in an
appropriate renormalization group cascade. Interestingly, in the cascade, the
contribution of the stringy instanton does not come from gauge theory
instantons but from strong coupling dynamics.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures, harvma
Generalized geometry, calibrations and supersymmetry in diverse dimensions
We consider type II backgrounds of the form R^{1,d-1} x M^{10-d} for even d,
preserving 2^{d/2} real supercharges; for d = 4, 6, 8 this is minimal
supersymmetry in d dimensions, while for d = 2 it is N = (2,0) supersymmetry in
two dimensions. For d = 6 we prove, by explicitly solving the Killing-spinor
equations, that there is a one-to-one correspondence between background
supersymmetry equations in pure-spinor form and D-brane generalized
calibrations; this correspondence had been known to hold in the d = 4 case.
Assuming the correspondence to hold for all d, we list the calibration forms
for all admissible D-branes, as well as the background supersymmetry equations
in pure-spinor form. We find a number of general features, including the
following: The pattern of codimensions at which each calibration form appears
exhibits a (mod 4) periodicity. In all cases one of the pure-spinor equations
implies that the internal manifold is generalized Calabi-Yau. Our results are
manifestly invariant under generalized mirror symmetry.Comment: 28 pages, 1 tabl
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Neutrino Masses, Baryon Asymmetry, Dark Matter and the Moduli Problem : A Complete Framework
Recent developments in string theory have led to "realistic" string
compactifications which lead to moduli stabilization while generating a
hierarchy between the Electroweak and Planck scales at the same time. However,
this seems to suggest a rethink of our standard notions of cosmological
evolution after the end of inflation and before the beginning of BBN. We argue
that within classes of realistic string compactifications, there generically
exists a light modulus with a mass comparable to that of the gravitino which
generates a large late-time entropy when it decays. Therefore, all known
mechanisms of generating the baryon asymmetry of the Universe in the literature
have to take this fact into account. In this work, we find that it is still
possible to naturally generate the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe as
well as light left-handed neutrino masses from a period of Affleck-Dine(AD)
leptogenesis shortly after the end of inflation, in classes of realistic string
constructions with a minimal extension of the MSSM below the unification scale
(consisting only of right-handed neutrinos) and satisfying certain microscopic
criteria described in the text. The consequences are as follows. The lightest
left-handed neutrino is required to be virtually massless. The moduli
(gravitino) problem can be naturally solved in this framework both within
gravity and gauge mediation. The observed upper bound on the relic abundance
constrains the moduli-matter and moduli-gravitino couplings since the DM is
produced non-thermally within this framework. Finally, although not a definite
prediction, the framework naturally allows a light right-handed neutrino and
sneutrinos around the electroweak scale which could have important implications
for DM as well as the LHC.Comment: 41 pages, no figures, journal version adde
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