https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5185-y
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Three-forms in supergravity and flux compactifications
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Galileo Galilei”, Università degli Studi di Padova & I.N.F.N. Sezione di Padova, Via F. Marzolo 8, 35131, Padova, Italy
* e-mail: fotisfgm@gmail.com
Received:
21
July
2017
Accepted:
31
August
2017
Published online:
12
September
2017
We present a duality procedure that relates conventional four-dimensional matter-coupled 
supergravities to dual formulations in which auxiliary fields are replaced by field strengths of gauge three-forms. The duality promotes specific coupling constants appearing in the superpotential to vacuum expectation values of the field strengths. We then apply this general duality to type IIA string compactifications on Calabi–Yau orientifolds with RR fluxes. This gives a new supersymmetric formulation of the corresponding effective four-dimensional theories which includes gauge three-forms.
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