Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2004-03-31
Nucl.Phys.B695:103-131,2004
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
33 pages, 5 figures. v2 is the final Nuclear Physics B version including an additional reference and some minor corrections
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.06.025
We develop a formalism for computing one-loop gravitational corrections to the effective action of D-branes. In particular, we study bulk to brane mediation of supersymmetry breaking in models where supersymmetry is broken at the tree-level in the closed string sector (bulk) by Scherk-Schwarz boundary conditions, while it is realized on a collection of D-branes in a linear or non-linear way. We compute the gravitational corrections to the fermion masses $m_{1/2}$ (gauginos or goldstino) induced from the exchange of closed strings, which are non-vanishing for world-sheets with Euler characteristic -1 (``genus 3/2'') due to a string diagram with one handle and one hole. We show that the corrections have a topological origin and that in general, for a small gravitino mass, the induced mass behaves as $m_{1/2}\propto g^4 m_{3/2}$, with $g$ the gauge coupling. In generic orbifold compactifications however, this leading term vanishes as a consequence of cancellations caused by discrete symmetries, and the remainder is exponentially suppressed by a factor of $\exp(-1/\alpha'm^2_{3/2})$.
Antoniadis Ignatios
Taylor Tomasz R.
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