Published May 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

More dual fluxes and moduli fixing

  • 1. Instituto Balseiro, CNEA, Centro Atomico Bariloche, 8400 S.C. de Bariloche, and CONICET (Argentina)
  • 2. Departamento de Fisica Teorica C-XI and Instituto de Fisica Teorica C-XVI, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid (Spain)

Description

We generalize the recent proposal that invariance under T-duality leads to additional non-geometric fluxes required so that superpotentials in type IIA and type IIB orientifolds match. We show that invariance under type IIB S-duality requires the introduction of a new set of fluxes leading to further superpotential terms. We find new classes of N = 1 supersymmetric Minkowski vacua based on type IIB toroidal orientifolds in which not only dilaton and complex moduli but also Kaehler moduli are fixed. The chains of dualities relating type II orientifolds to heterotic and M-theory compactifications suggests the existence of yet further flux degrees of freedom. Restricting to a particular type IIA/IIB or heterotic compactification only some of these degrees of freedom have a simple perturbative and/or geometric interpretation

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1126-6708/2006/i=05/a=070/jhep052006070.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/

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Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
2006
Journal Issue
05
Journal Page Range
p. 070
ISSN
1126-6708