Heterotic Flux Vacua with a Small Superpotential
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| author | Buchbinder, Evgeny I. Constantin, Andrei Leung, Lucas T. Y. Lukas, Andre Ovrut, Burt |
| author_facet | Buchbinder, Evgeny I. Constantin, Andrei Leung, Lucas T. Y. Lukas, Andre Ovrut, Burt |
| contents | We study heterotic Calabi--Yau compactifications with NSNS three-form flux in view of moduli stabilisation and investigate whether the value $|W_0|$ of the flux superpotential evaluated at supersymmetric minima can be small. Unlike in type IIB string theory, heterotic compactifications lack a no-scale structure, so that a non-vanishing flux superpotential generically induces a tree-level scalar potential for all moduli. Controlled moduli stabilisation therefore requires the flux superpotential to be sufficiently small in order to compete with non-perturbative effects. Working within a four-dimensional effective field theory and exploiting the special geometry of Calabi--Yau complex structure moduli spaces, we analyse the complex structure F-term equations and derive two no-go theorems: (1) supersymmetric vacua with vanishing $|W_0|$, which would lead to a vanishing tree-level scalar potential as in type IIB, occur only at singular loci in moduli space, and (2) no supersymmetric vacua with small $|W_0|$ exist in the large complex structure limit. Motivated by these results, we analyse explicit models away from the large complex structure regime using exact period expressions and identify one- and two-parameter examples in which suitable flux choices allow for values of $|W_0|$ of order unity, with some one-parameter models admitting values moderately below unity. Our findings show that small heterotic flux superpotentials are highly constrained, with the values of $|W_0|$ found in the examples studied being only marginally compatible with moduli stabilisation. |
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| spellingShingle | Heterotic Flux Vacua with a Small Superpotential Buchbinder, Evgeny I. Constantin, Andrei Leung, Lucas T. Y. Lukas, Andre Ovrut, Burt High Energy Physics - Theory High Energy Physics - Phenomenology We study heterotic Calabi--Yau compactifications with NSNS three-form flux in view of moduli stabilisation and investigate whether the value $|W_0|$ of the flux superpotential evaluated at supersymmetric minima can be small. Unlike in type IIB string theory, heterotic compactifications lack a no-scale structure, so that a non-vanishing flux superpotential generically induces a tree-level scalar potential for all moduli. Controlled moduli stabilisation therefore requires the flux superpotential to be sufficiently small in order to compete with non-perturbative effects. Working within a four-dimensional effective field theory and exploiting the special geometry of Calabi--Yau complex structure moduli spaces, we analyse the complex structure F-term equations and derive two no-go theorems: (1) supersymmetric vacua with vanishing $|W_0|$, which would lead to a vanishing tree-level scalar potential as in type IIB, occur only at singular loci in moduli space, and (2) no supersymmetric vacua with small $|W_0|$ exist in the large complex structure limit. Motivated by these results, we analyse explicit models away from the large complex structure regime using exact period expressions and identify one- and two-parameter examples in which suitable flux choices allow for values of $|W_0|$ of order unity, with some one-parameter models admitting values moderately below unity. Our findings show that small heterotic flux superpotentials are highly constrained, with the values of $|W_0|$ found in the examples studied being only marginally compatible with moduli stabilisation. |
| title | Heterotic Flux Vacua with a Small Superpotential |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04148 |