Heterotic fluxes and supersymmetry
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We show that the formal α expansion for heterotic flux vacua is only sensible when flux quantization and the appearance of string scale cycles in the geometry are carefully taken into account. We summarize a number of properties of solutions with N=1 and N=2 space-time supersymmetry.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014