Dimensional reduction for D3-brane moduli

作者:Cownden Brad*; Frey Andrew R; Marsh M C David; Underwood Bret
来源:The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016, 2016(12): 139.
DOI:10.1007/JHEP12(2016)139

摘要

Warped string compactifications are central to many attempts to stabilize moduli and connect string theory with cosmology and particle phenomenology. We present a first-principles derivation of the low-energy 4D effective theory from dimensional reduction of a D3-brane in a warped Calabi-Yau compactification of type IIB string theory with imaginary self-dual 3-form flux, including effects of D3-brane motion beyond the probe approximation, and find the metric on the moduli space of brane positions, the universal volume modulus, and axions descending from the 4-form potential. As D3-branes may be considered as carrying either electric or magnetic charges for the self-dual 5-form field strength, we present calculations in both duality frames. Our results are consistent with, but extend significantly, earlier results on the low-energy effective theory arising from D3-branes in string compactifications.

  • 出版日期2016-12-28