A Breathing Mode for Warped Compactifications
arXiv:1009.4200 · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/28/19/195013
Abstract
In general warped compactifications, non-trivial backgrounds for the warp factor and the dilaton break -dimensional diffeomorphism invariance, so that dilaton fluctuations can be gauged away completely and eaten by the metric. More specifically, the warped volume modulus and the dilaton are not independent, but combine into a single gauge-invariant degree of freedom in the lower dimensional effective theory, the warped breathing mode. This occurs for all strengths of the warping, even the weakly warped limit. This warped breathing mode appears as a natural zero mode deformation of backgrounds sourced by p-branes, and affects the identification of the independent degrees of freedom of flux compactifications.
33 pages. v2: Added references, comments. v3: Updated discussion, added references
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