Gaugino condensation in an improved heterotic M-theory

TL;DR

This paper explores gaugino condensation within an improved heterotic M-theory framework, analyzing its effects on the four-dimensional superpotential and demonstrating that certain contributions remain unaffected by warping effects.

Contribution

It introduces a consistent version of heterotic M-theory incorporating gaugino condensates and fluxes, with a detailed analysis of their impact on the four-dimensional superpotential.

Findings

Condensate and flux contributions to the superpotential are unaffected by warping.

Generalization to include non-trivial topology fluxes.

Establishment of a consistent low-energy heterotic M-theory framework.

Abstract

Gaugino condensation is discussed in the context of a consistent new version of low energy heterotic M-theory. The four dimensional reduction of the theory is described, based on simple boson and fermion backgrounds. This is generalised to include gaugino condenstates and various background fluxes, some with non-trivial topology. It is found that condensate and quantised flux contributions to the four-dimensional superpotential contain no corrections due to the warping of the higher dimensional metric.