On a family of α\alpha'-corrected solutions of the Heterotic Superstring effective action

Mar 12, 2018
25 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 07 (2018) 080
  • Published: Jul 11, 2018
e-Print:
Report number:
  • FPAUO-18/03,
  • IFT-UAM/CSIC-18-018,
  • IFUM-1058-FT

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Abstract: (Springer)
We compute explicitly the first-order in α′ corrections to a family of solutions of the Heterotic Superstring effective action that describes fundamental strings with momentum along themselves, parallel to solitonic 5-branes with Kaluza-Klein monopoles (Gibbons-Hawking metrics) in their transverse space. These solutions correspond to 4-charge extremal black holes in 4 dimensions upon dimensional reduction on T6^{6}. We show that some of the α′ corrections can be cancelled by introducing solitonic SU(2) × SU(2) Yang-Mills fields, and that this family of α′-corrected solutions is invariant under α′-corrected T-duality transformations. We study in detail the mechanism that allows us to compute explicitly these α′ corrections for the ansatz considered here, based on a generalization of the ’t Hooft ansatz to hyperKähler spaces.
Note:
  • v2: typos corrected, references added
  • Black Holes in String Theory
  • Superstrings and Heterotic Strings
  • Superstring Vacua
  • superstring: heterotic
  • T-duality: transformation
  • monopole: Kaluza-Klein
  • space: transverse
  • dimension: 4
  • family
  • effective action