2000/11/30 by T. Dent, Thomas Dent, Dent, Thomas
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0011294
14 pages, uses amssymb
arxiv created 2000/11/30 · openalex publication_date 2000/11/30 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We show that, in perturbative string models where the source of CP violation is a complex vacuum expectation value (v.e.v.) for one or more compactification moduli, CP is conserved if a CP transformation acting on the modulus values is an element of a target-space (self-)duality group. Where the duality group is SL(2,Z) the result confirms a conjecture of Bailin et al. that CP is conserved for v.e.v.'s of the T modulus on the boundary of the fundamental domain, and generalises Giedt's result on the removability of complex Yukawa couplings in such models. Our result applies to any model of spontaneous CP violation where the CP-odd scalar transforms under a symmetry that is not explicitly broken. We consider whether similar results could be obtained in ``brane worlds''.