Theory Seminar

New potentials from Scherk-Schwarz reductions

by Erik Plauschinn (Utrecht University)

Europe/Berlin
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Description
I will discuss compactifications of eleven-dimensional supergravity on Calabi-Yau threefolds times a circle, with a certain duality twist along the circle a la Scherk-Schwarz. This leads to four-dimensional N=2 gauged supergravity with a semi-positive definite potential for the scalar fields, which will be presented. It will furthermore be illustrated how to define a truncation to N=1 supergravity; and the D-terms, Kaehler- and superpotentials for these models will be determined. Finally, I will point out a relation to M-theory compactifications on seven-dimensional manifolds with G2 structure.