The Euler characteristic correction to the Kaehler potential - revisited

Abstract

We confirm the leading ${\alpha }^{\prime 3}$ correction to the 4d, $\mathcal{N}=1$ Kähler potential of type IIB orientifold compactifications, proportional to the Euler characteristic of the Calabi-Yau threefold (BBHL correction). We present the explicit solution for the ${\alpha }^{\prime 3}$-modified internal background metric in terms of the non-harmonic part of the third Chern form of the leading order Calabi-Yau manifold. The corrected internal manifold is almost Calabi-Yau and admits an $SU(3)$ structure with non-vanishing torsion. We also find that the full ten-dimensional Einstein frame background metric is multiplied by a non-trivial Weyl factor. Performing a Kaluza-Klein reduction on the modified background we derive the ${\alpha }^{\prime 3}$-corrected kinetic terms for the dilaton and the Kähler deformations of the internal Calabi-Yau threefold for arbitrary $h^{1,1}$. We analyze these kinetic terms in the 4d, $\mathcal{N}=2$ un-orientifolded theory, confirming the expected correction to the Kähler moduli space prepotential, as well as in the 4d, $\mathcal{N}=1$ orientifolded theory, thus determining the corrections to the Kähler potential and Kähler coordinates.

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