On the Heterotic Effective Action at One-Loop, Gauge Couplings and the Gravitational Sector

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1996-05-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9605011v2

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

LateX, 17pp. A minor correction made

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We present in detail the procedure for calculating the heterotic one-loop effective action. We focus on gravitational and gauge couplings. We show that the two-derivative couplings of the gravitational sector are not renormalized at one loop when the ground state is supersymmetric. Arguments are presented that this non-renormalization theorem persists to all orders in perturbation theory. We also derive the full one-loop correction to the gauge coupling. For a class of $N=2$ ground states, namely those that are obtained by toroidal compactification to four dimensions of generic six-dimensional $N=1$ models, we give an explicit formula for the gauge-group independent thresholds, and show that these are equal within the whole family.

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