2008/06/30 by Lilia Anguelova
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/017
published as JHEP 0901:017,2009 · 39 pages; small improvements and clarifications, references added, journal version
arxiv created 2008/12/23 · openalex publication_date 2009/01/08 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
We investigate whether there are attractor equations for N=1 flux vacua in generalized compactifications. We fill a gap in the existing literature by verifying analytically that the recently proposed susy attractors, for type IIB CY(3) orientifold compactifications with flux, do give supersymmetric minima of the relevant scalar potential. Furthermore, our considerations clarify various confusions about existing proposals for generalization of the flux vacua attractors to non-Kähler compactifications. We explore different possibilities for generalization and find attractor equations for N=1 Minkowski vacua only both for the heterotic string on SU(3) structure manifolds and for type IIA/B on SU(3)xSU(3) structure spaces.