Anomalous U(1)'s in Type I and Type IIB D=4, N=1 string vacua

Details Anomalous U(1)'s in Type I and Type IIB D=4, N=1 string vacua Anomalous U(1)'s in Type I and Type IIB D=4, N=1 string vacua

1998-08-21

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9808139v2

Nucl.Phys.B542:112-138,1999

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

Latex, 30 pages, 2 eps figures. Minor corrections

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00791-3

We study the cancellation of U(1) anomalies in Type I and Type IIB D=4, N=1 string vacua. We first consider the case of compact toroidal $Z_N$ Type IIB orientifolds and then proceed to the non-compact case of Type IIB D3 branes at orbifold and orientifold singularities. Unlike the case of the heterotic string we find that for each given vacuum one has generically more than one U(1) with non-vanishing triangle anomalies. There is a generalized Green-Schwarz mechanism by which these anomalies are cancelled. This involves only the Ramond-Ramond scalars coming from the twisted closed string spectrum but not those coming from the untwisted sector. Associated to the anomalous U(1)'s there are field-dependent Fayet-Illiopoulos terms whose mass scale is fixed by undetermined vev's of the NS-NS partners of the relevant twisted RR fields. Thus, unlike what happens in heterotic vacua, the masses of the anomalous U(1)'s gauge bosons may be arbitrarily light. In the case of D3 branes at singularities, appropriate factorization of the U(1)'s constrains the Chan-Paton matrices beyond the restrictions from cancellation of non-abelian anomalies. These conditions can be translated to constraints on the T-dual Type IIB brane box configurations. We also construct a new large family of N=1 chiral gauge field theories from D3 branes at orientifold singularities, and check its non-abelian and U(1) anomalies cancel.

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