Low-energy structure of six-dimensional open-string vacua

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dc.creatorRiccioni, Fabio
dc.date2002-03-18
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dc.descriptionThis dissertation reviews some properties of the low-energy effective actions for six dimensional open-string models. The first chapter is a pedagogical introduction about supergravity theories. In the second chapter closed strings are analyzed, with particular emphasis on type IIB, whose orientifold projection, in order to build type-I models, is the subject of the third chapter. Original results are reported in chapters 4 and 5. In chapter 4 we describe the complete coupling of (1,0) six-dimensional supergravity to tensor, vector and hypermultiplets. The generalized Green-Schwarz mechanism implies that the resulting theory embodies factorized gauge and supersymmetry anomalies, to be disposed of by fermion loops. Consequently, the low-energy theory is determined by the Wess-Zumino consistency conditions, rather than by the requirement of supersymmetry, and this procedure does not fix a quartic coupling for the gauginos. In chapter 5 we describe the low-energy effective actions for type-I models with brane supersymmetry breaking, resulting form the simultaneous presence of supersymmetric bulks, with one or more gravitinos, and non-supersymmetric combinations of BPS branes.The consistency of the resulting gravitino couplings implies that local supersymmetry is non-linearly realized on some branes. We analyze in detail the ten-dimensional $USp(32)$ model and the six-dimensional (1,0) models.
dc.description165 pages, LaTeX, Ph.D. thesis
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0203157
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0203157
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/51192
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleLow-energy structure of six-dimensional open-string vacua
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