Special geometry and perturbative analysis of N=2 heterotic vacua

1995/11/03 by B. de Wit, de Wit, B.
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9511019

LateX using wstwocl, 5 pp. To appear in Procs. of the EPS95 Conference, Brussels

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Abstract

The requirement of target-space duality and the use of nonrenormalization theorems lead to strong constraints on the perturbative prepotential that encodes the low-energy effective action of N=2 heterotic superstring vacua. The analysis is done in the context of special geometry, which governs the couplings of the vector multiplets. The presentation is kept at an introductory level.

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