On Type IIB moduli stabilization and N = 4, 8 supergravities

GERARDO ALDAZABAL; DIEGO MARQUES; CARMEN NUNEZ; ALEJANDRO ROSABAL

NUCLEAR PHYSICS B

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Año: 2011 vol. 849 p. 80 - 111

0550-3213

We analyze D = 4 compactifications of Type IIB theory with generic, geometric and non-geometric, dual fluxes turned on. In particular, we study N = 1 toroidal orbifold compactifications that admit an embedding of the untwisted sector into gauged N = 4, 8 supergravities. Truncations, spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry and the inclusion of sources are discussed. The algebraic identities satisfied by the supergravity gaugings are used to implement the full set of consistency constraints on the background fluxes. This allows to perform a generic study of N = 1 vacua and identify large regions of the parameter space that do not admit complete moduli stabilization. Illustrative examples of AdS and Minkowski vacua are presented.