The decoupling of moduli about the standard embedding

Abstract We study the cohomology of an elliptic differential complex arising from the infinitesimal moduli of heterotic string theory in the supergravity approximation. We compute these cohomology groups at the standard embedding, and show that they decompose into a direct sum of cohomologies. While...

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主要な著者: Beatrice Chisamanga, Jock McOrist, Sebastien Picard, Eirik Eik Svanes
フォーマット: 論文
言語:English
出版事項: SpringerOpen 2025-01-01
シリーズ:Journal of High Energy Physics
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オンライン・アクセス:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2025)032
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要約:Abstract We study the cohomology of an elliptic differential complex arising from the infinitesimal moduli of heterotic string theory in the supergravity approximation. We compute these cohomology groups at the standard embedding, and show that they decompose into a direct sum of cohomologies. While this is often assumed in the literature, it had not been explicitly demonstrated. Given a stable gauge bundle over a complex threefold with trivial canonical bundle and no holomorphic vector fields, we also show that the Euler characteristic of this differential complex is zero. This points towards a perfect obstruction theory for the heterotic moduli problem, at least for the most physically relevant compactifications.
ISSN:1029-8479