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Scalar potential for the gauged Heisenberg algebra and a non-polynomial antisymmetric tensor theory
Riccardo D'Auria, Sergio Ferrara, Mario Trigiante +1
We study some issues related to the effective theory of Calabi-Yau compactifications with fluxes in Type II theories. At first the scalar potential for a generic electric abelian g…
Dyonic Masses from Conformal Field Strengths in D even Dimensions
R. D'Auria, S. Ferrara
We show that D/2--form gauge fields in D even dimensions can get a mass with both electric and magnetic contributions when coupled to conformal field--strengths whose gauge potenti…
N=2 Supergravity Lagrangian Coupled to Tensor Multiplets with Electric and Magnetic Fluxes
Riccardo D'Auria, Luca Sommovigo, Silvia Vaula
We derive the full N=2 supergravity Lagrangian which contains a symplectic invariant scalar potential in terms of electric and magnetic charges. As shown in reference [1], the appe…
No-scale supergravity from higher dimensions
Riccardo D'Auria, Sergio Ferrara, Mario Trigiante
We discuss recent results on the interpretation of flux compactifications on certain Type IIB orientifolds in terms of gauged N-extended supergravities of no--scale type.
Orientifolds, Brane Coordinates and Special Geometry
R. D'Auria, S. Ferrara, M. Trigiante
We report on the gauged supergravity analysis of Type IIB vacua on K3x T2/Z2 orientifold in the presence of D3-D7-branes and fluxes. We discuss supersymmetric critical points corre…
Homogeneous Special Manifolds, Orientifolds and Solvable Coordinates
Riccardo D'Auria, Sergio Ferrara, Mario Trigiante
We discuss some geometrical properties of the underlying N=2 geometry which encompasses some low--energy aspects of N=1 orientifolds as well as four dimensional N=2 Lagrangians inc…