Small Gauge Transformations and Universal Geometry in Heterotic Theories

Title
Small Gauge Transformations and Universal Geometry in Heterotic Theories
Publication Date
2020-12-02
Author(s)
McOrist, Jock
Sisca, Roberto
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Institute of Mathematics
Place of publication
Ukraine
DOI
10.3842/SIGMA.2020.126
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/30245
Abstract
The first part of this paper describes in detail the action of small gauge transformations in heterotic supergravity. We show a convenient gauge fixing is 'holomorphic gauge' together with a condition on the holomorphic top form. This gauge fixing, combined with supersymmetry and the Bianchi identity, allows us to determine a set of non-linear PDEs for the terms in the Hodge decomposition. Although solving these in general is highly non-trivial, we give a prescription for their solution perturbatively in α‵ and apply this to the moduli space metric. The second part of this paper relates small gauge transformations to a choice of connection on the moduli space. We show holomorphic gauge is related to a choice of holomorphic structure and Lee form on a 'universal bundle'. Connections on the moduli space have field strengths that appear in the second order deformation theory and we point out it is generically the case that higher order deformations do not commute.
Link
Citation
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications, v.16, p. 126-174
ISSN
1815-0659
Start page
126
End page
174
Rights
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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