Heterotic fluxes and supersymmetry

Ilarion V. Melnikov (1, 2) , Ruben Minasian (3) , Savdeep Sethi (4)

1 George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy
2 Texas A&M University [College Station]
3 IPHT - Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681
4 Enrico Fermi Institute

We show that the formal alpha' expansion for heterotic flux vacua is only sensible when flux quantization and the appearance of string scale cycles in the geometry are carefully taken into account. We summarize a number of properties of solutions with N=1 and N=2 space-time supersymmetry.

Keywords: Flux compactifications; Superstrings; Heterotic Strings

Domains: High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th]

Ilarion V. Melnikov, Ruben Minasian, Savdeep Sethi. Heterotic fluxes and supersymmetry. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014, 06, pp.174. ⟨cea-01053158⟩