Gauss-Bonnet Supergravity in Six Dimensions

Joseph Novak, Mehmet Ozkan, Yi Pang, Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

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Abstract

The supersymmetrization of curvature squared terms is important in the study of the low-energy limit of compactified superstrings where a distinguished role is played by the Gauss-Bonnet combination, which is ghost-free. In this Letter, we construct its off-shell N=(1,0) supersymmetrization in six dimensions for the first time. By studying this invariant together with the supersymmetric Einstein-Hilbert term, we confirm and extend known results of the α′-corrected string theory compactified to six dimensions. Finally, we analyze the spectrum about the AdS3×S3 solution.

Original languageEnglish
Article number111602
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume119
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Sept 2017

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