Five-Branes in Heterotic Brane-World Theories

Abstract

The effective action for five-dimensional heterotic M-theory in the presence of five-branes is systematically derived from Horava-Witten theory coupled to an M5-brane world-volume theory. This leads to a five-dimensional N=1 gauged supergravity theory on S^1/Z_2 coupled to four-dimensional N=1 theories residing on the two orbifold fixed planes and an additional bulk three-brane. We analyse the properties of this action, particularly the four-dimensional effective theory associated with the domain-wall vacuum state. The moduli Kahler potential and the gauge-kinetic functions are determined along with the explicit relations between four-dimensional superfields and five-dimensional component fields.

19 pages, Latex, typos corrected, reference added

References in corpus (7)

• The Ekpyrotic Universe: Colliding Branes and the Origin of the Hot Big Bang
• Pyrotechnic Universe
• G-Fluxes and Non-Perturbative Stabilisation of Heterotic M-Theory
• Moving Five-Branes in Low-Energy Heterotic M-Theory
• Anomaly free effective action for the elementary M5-brane
• A Brief Comment on "The Pyrotechnic Universe"
• Dirac Branes, Characteristic Currents and Anomaly Cancellations in 5-Branes

Cited by in corpus (25)

• New Ekpyrotic Cosmology
• Heterotic GUT and Standard Model Vacua from simply connected Calabi-Yau Manifolds
• Isocurvature perturbations in the Ekpyrotic universe
• Stability Walls in Heterotic Theories
• Cosmological Spacetimes from Negative Tension Brane Backgrounds
• Enlarging the Parameter Space of Heterotic M-Theory Flux Compactifications to Phenomenological Viability
• Yukawa Textures From Heterotic Stability Walls
• Effective Actions for Heterotic M-Theory
• Moduli stabilization in heterotic M-theory
• Baryogenesis by Brane-Collision
• Kinky Brane Worlds
• Perturbative Anti-Brane Potentials in Heterotic M-theory
• Flux, Gaugino Condensation and Anti-Branes in Heterotic M-theory
• Five-Dimensional Moving Brane Solutions with Four-Dimensional Limiting Behaviour
• Five Dimensional Cosmology in Horava-Witten M-Theory
• Kink-boundary collisions in a two dimensional scalar field theory
• Gauge Five Brane Dynamics And Small Instanton Transitions In Heterotic Models
• Phenomenology of heterotic M-theory with five-branes
• Line Bundle Hidden Sectors for Strongly Coupled Heterotic Standard Models
• Moving Five-Branes and Membrane Instantons in Low Energy Heterotic M-Theory
• Cosmological Solutions of Low-Energy Heterotic M-Theory
• The Isometries of Low-Energy Heterotic M-Theory
• Explicit Soft Supersymmetry Breaking in the Heterotic M-Theory $B-L$ MSSM
• Moving Five-Branes and Cosmology
• Hidden Sectors from Multiple Line Bundles for the $B-L$ MSSM