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New supersymmetric string compactifications

Shamit Kachru1, Michael B. Schulz2, Prasanta K. Tripathy3 and Sandip P. Trivedi3

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We describe a new class of supersymmetric string compactifications to 4d Minkowski space. These solutions involve type II strings propagating on (orientifolds of) non Calabi-Yau spaces in the presence of background NS and RR fluxes. The simplest examples have descriptions as cosets, generalizing the three-dimensional nilmanifold. They can also be thought of as twisted tori. We derive a formula for the (super)potential governing the light fields, which is generated by the fluxes and certain ``twists'' in the geometry. Detailed consideration of an example also gives strong evidence that in some cases, these exotic geometries are related by smooth transitions to standard Calabi-Yau or G2 compactifications of M-theory.


Keywords

Superstring Vacua

String Duality

 

E-print Number: hep-th/0211182

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PACS

11.25.Mj Compactification and four-dimensional models

11.30.Pb Supersymmetry

11.25.Yb M theory

11.25.Tq Gauge/string duality

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 03 (March 2003)

Received 27 March 2003, accepted for publication 31 March 2003

Published 3 April 2003



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