Solitons, Superpotentials and Calibrations
arXiv:hep-th/9911011 · doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00053-5
Abstract
In this paper we study several issues related to the generation of superpotential induced by background Ramond-Ramond fluxes in compactification of Type IIA string theory on Calabi-Yau four-folds. Identifying BPS solitons with D-branes wrapped over calibrated submanifolds in a Calabi-Yau space, we propose a general formula for the superpotential and justify it comparing the supersymmetry conditions in D=2 and D=10 supergravity theories. We also suggest a geometric interpretation to the supersymmetric index in the two-dimensional effective theory in terms of topological invariants of the Calabi-Yau four-fold, and estimate the asymptotic growth of these invariants from BTZ black hole entropy. Finally, we explicitly construct new supersymmetric vacua for Type IIA string theory compactification on a Calabi-Yau four-fold with Ramond-Ramond fluxes.
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