Compactifications of Type II Supergravities in Superspace

TL;DR

This paper introduces a superspace-based approach derived from pure spinor superstring theory to describe flux compactifications of Type II supergravities, unifying and extending previous results.

Contribution

It presents a novel superspace formulation for Type II supergravity compactifications with fluxes, directly connecting to pure spinor superstring theory.

Findings

Unified superspace description of flux compactifications

Derivation of previous results within the new framework

Potential for simplifying supergravity compactification analysis

Abstract

We propose a way to describe compactifications of Type II supergravities with fluxes directly from superspace. The superspace used is the one that arises naturally from the pure spinor superstring. We show how previous results of flux compactifications can be obtained from our method.