Superfield methods can be used to determine the precise way the self-dual five-form couples to the metric in the first non-trivial $α'$ corrections to type IIB supergravity. We explicitly compute the exact tensor structure of these terms. This requires extensive use of computing algorithms to reduce the complicated expressions that appear to a surprisingly simple form. Along the way we show a new method of computing Schouten identities. With this result we clarify under which conditions one may neglect the five-form higher derivative terms. We comment on corrections to the thermodynamics of charged black holes.
The Ramond-Ramond self-dual Five-form's Partition Function on the Ten Torus
鉴于最近人们对Ramond-Ramond p-形式量子理论的兴趣，我们给出了十环上手征IIB型弦论四形式的SL（10，Z）不变配分函数.我们遵循的策略，用于获得一个模块不变的配分函数的手征2形式的M-理论fivebrane。我们还将计算推广到时空维2 p =2+4k中的自对偶量子场，并给出了奇p>1时的SL（2 p，Z）自守形式。我们将我们的显式计算与Witten的工作中讨论的B循环周期的计算联系起来。
Motivated by the standard form of string-theory amplitude, we calculate the field-theory amplitude to complete the higher-derivative terms in type II supergravity theories in their conventional form. We derive explicitly the $ O(α'^3) $ interactions for the RR (Ramond-Ramond) fields with graviton, B-field and dilaton in the low-energy effective action of type II superstrings. We check our results by comparison with previous works that have been done by the other methods, and find an exact agreement.
We present a gauge invariant action for a superstring in the plane wave background with Ramond-Ramond (RR) five-form flux. The Wess-Zumino term is given explicitly in a bilinear form of the left invariant currents by introducing a fermionic center to define the nondegenerate group metric. The reparametrization invariance generators, whose combinations are conformal generators, and fermionic constraints, half of which generate kappa-symmetry, are obtained. Equations of motion are obtained in conformal invariant and background covariant manners.
We study four-derivative corrections to pure $\mathcal{N}=2$, $D=5$ gauged supergravity. In particular, we find that, up to field redefinitions, there is a single four-derivative superinvariant that one can add to the action, up to factors of the two-derivative action. Consequently, this selects out a unique set of coefficients for the four-derivative corrections. We confirm these coefficients (in the ungauged limit) on the BMPV solution.
We compute the tree-level $H^2R^3$ couplings of type II strings and provide some basic tests of the couplings by considering both K3 and Calabi-Yau threefold compactifications. Curiously, additional kinematical structures show up at tree level that are not present in the one-loop couplings. This has interesting implications for type II supersymmetry as well as $SL(2, \mathbb Z)$ duality in type IIB strings.
BMPV black holes in higher-derivative supergravity
Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan（密歇根大学莱恩韦伯理论物理研究所）；Tianjin University（天津大学）；Peng Huanwu Center for Fundamental Theory（彭桓武基础理论中心）
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