Supersymmetry breaking in M-theory and quantization rules

Details Supersymmetry breaking in M-theory and quantization rules Supersymmetry breaking in M-theory and quantization rules

1997-09-04

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9709043v1

Phys.Lett. B416 (1998) 309-318

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

16 pages, LaTex, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01308-7

We analyze in detail supersymmetry breaking by compactification of the fifth dimension in M-theory in the compactification pattern $11d \to 5d \to 4d$ and find that a superpotential is generated for the complex fields coming from $5d$ hypermultiplets, namely the dilaton $S$ and the complex structure moduli. Using general arguments it is shown that these fields are always stabilized such that they don't contribute to supersymmetry breaking, which is completely saturated by the K\"ahler moduli coming from vector multiplets. It is shown that this mechanism is the strong-coupling analog of the Rohm-Witten quantization of the antisymmetric tensor field strength of string theories. The effect of a gaugino condensate on one of the boundaries is also considered.

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