Full Component Lagrangian in the Linear Multiplet Formulation of String-inspired Effective Supergravity

TL;DR

This paper derives a comprehensive 4D N=1 supergravity Lagrangian from superfield formalism with a linear dilaton multiplet, enhancing the modeling of string-inspired phenomenological scenarios including anomaly cancellation and moduli stabilization.

Contribution

It generalizes previous results by providing a flexible supergravity Lagrangian with fermionic terms, suitable for diverse string-inspired models and including Green-Schwarz counterterms.

Findings

Provides explicit fermionic terms in the supergravity Lagrangian.

Includes general Green-Schwarz counterterms for anomaly cancellation.

Offers a versatile dilaton Kahler potential accommodating stabilization methods.

Abstract

We compute the component field 4-dimensional N=1 supergravity Lagrangian that is obtained from a superfield Lagrangian in the U(1)_K formalism with a linear dilaton multiplet. All fermionic terms are presented. In a variety of important ways, our results generalize those that have been reported previously, and are flexible enough to accomodate many situations of phenomenological interest in string-inspired effective supergravity, especially models based on orbifold compactifications of the weakly-coupled heterotic string. We provide for an effective theory of hidden gaugino and matter condensation. We include supersymmetric Green-Schwarz counterterms associated with the cancellation of U(1) and modular duality anomalies; the modular duality counterterm is of a rather general form. Our assumed form for the dilaton Kahler potential is quite general and can accomodate Kahler stabilization methods. We note possible applications of our results. We also discuss the usefulness of the linear dilaton formulation as a complement to the chiral dilaton approach.