M-theory compactified on Calabi-Yau fourfolds with background flux

2001/03/19 by Michael Haack, Jan Louis · 16 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(01)00464-6

published as Phys.Lett. B507 (2001) 296-304 · 11 pages, changed referencing and added clarifying remark in footnote 7

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Abstract

We perform the Kaluza-Klein reduction of M-theory on warped Calabi-Yau fourfolds with non-trivial four-form flux turned on. The resulting scalar- and superpotential is computed and compared with the superpotential obtained by Gukov, Vafa and Witten using different methods.

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