2004/11/30 by Shamit Kachru, Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor · 4 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Class (philosophy) #Geometry and complex manifolds #Metric (unit) #Moduli #Moduli space #Quantum #Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics #Simple (philosophy) #String (physics) #Type (biology) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2005/03/066
published as JHEP 0503:066,2005 · 30 pages, 2 figures; v2: minor changes
arxiv created 2004/12/09 · openalex publication_date 2005/03/24 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We describe a simple class of type IIA string compactifications on Calabi-Yau manifolds where background fluxes generate a potential for the complex structure moduli, the dilaton, and the Kähler moduli. This class of models corresponds to gauged N=2 supergravities, and the potential is completely determined by a choice of gauging and by data of the N=2 Calabi-Yau model - the prepotential for vector multiplets and the quaternionic metric on the hypermultiplet moduli space. Using mirror symmetry, one can determine many (though not all) of the quantum corrections which are relevant in these models.