Potentials for Light Moduli in Supergravity and String Theory

Abstract

This is an account of lectures that were given at TASI 2005, the Shanghai Summer School in M-theory 2005 and the Perimeter Institute. I review 1) the derivation of the potential for chiral scalar fields in $\mathcal{N}$=1 supergravity 2) the relation between F and D terms for chiral scalars, Weyl anomalies and the generation of non-perturbative terms in the superpotential and 3) the derivation of effective potentials for light moduli in type IIB string theory.

34 pages, 1 figure

Cited by in corpus (2)

• The Ubiquitous Throat
• Moduli stabilization in (string) model building: gauge fluxes and loops