Three-forms, dualities and membranes in four-dimensional supergravity

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作者
Bandos, Igor [1 ,2 ]
Farakos, Fotis [3 ]
Lanza, Stefano [4 ,5 ]
Martucci, Luca [4 ,5 ]
Sorokin, Dmitri [4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Basque Country UPV EHU, Dept Theoret Phys, POB 644, Bilbao 48080, Spain
[2] Basque Fdn Sci, Ikerbasque, E-48011 Bilbao, Spain
[3] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Inst Theoret Phys, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
[4] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron Galileo Galilei, Via F Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[5] INFN Sez Padova, Via F Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padua, Italy
基金
俄罗斯科学基金会; 澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
Supergravity Models; Superspaces; Supersymmetric Effective Theories; SUPERFIELD LAGRANGIAN APPROACH; CALABI-YAU; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; N=1 SUPERGRAVITY; DOMAIN-WALLS; P-BRANES; SUPERSYMMETRY; D=4; NEUTRALIZATION; SUPERSPACE;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP07(2018)028
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We consider four-dimensional N = 1 supergravity models of a kind appearing in string flux compactifications. It has been recently shown that, by using double three-form multiplets instead of ordinary chiral multiplets, one can promote to dynamical variables (part of) the quantized numbers appearing in the flux-induced superpotential. We show that double three-form multiplets naturally transform under symplectic dualities associated with the special Kahler structure that characterizes their scalar sector. Furthermore, we discuss how to couple membranes which carry arbitrary 'electric-magnetic' charges. The complete action is supersymmetric, kappa-symmetric and duality covariant. As an application, we derive the flow equations for BPS domain walls sourced by membranes and give simple analytic examples of their solution.
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