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Donagi R, Ovrut BA, Pantev T, et al., 2000, Nonperturbative vacua in heterotic M theory, Class.Quant.Grav., Vol: 17, Pages: 1049-1056
Lukas A, Ovrut BA, Waldram D, 2000, Heterotic M theory vacua with five-branes, Fortsch. Phys., Vol: 48, Pages: 167-170
Huey G, Steinhardt PJ, Ovrut BA, et al., 2000, A Cosmological mechanism for stabilizing moduli, Phys. Lett. B, Vol: 476, Pages: 379-386
Lukas A, Ovrut BA, Stelle KS, et al., 1999, Heterotic M theory in five-dimensions, Nuclear Physics B, Vol: B552, Pages: 246-290, ISSN: 0550-3213
We derive the five-dimensional effective action of strongly coupled heterotic string theory for the complete (1,1) sector of the theory by performing a reduction, on a Calabi-Yau three-fold, of M-theory on S1/Z2. A crucial ingredient for a consistent truncation is a non-zero-mode of the antisymmetric tensor field strength which arises due to magnetic sources on the orbifold planes. The correct effective theory is a gauged version of five-dimensional N = 1 supergravity coupled to Abelian vector multiplets, the universal hypermultiplet and four-dimensional boundary theories with gauge and gauge matter fields, The gauging is such that the dual of the four-form field strength in the universal multiplet is charged under a particular linear combination of the Abelian vector fields. In addition, the theory has potential terms for the moduli in the bulk as well as on the boundary. Because of these potential terms, the supersymmetric ground state of the theory is a multi-charged BPS three-brane domain wall, which we construct in general. We show that the five-dimensional theory together with this solution provides the correct starting point for particle phenomenology as well as early universe cosmology. As an application, we compute the four-dimensional N = 1 supergravity theory for the complete (1, 1) sector to leading non-trivial order by a reduction on the domain wall background. We find a correction to the matter field Kähler potential and threshold corrections to the gauge kinetic functions.
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