Universal scheme of minimal reduction of usual and dual N=1,D=10 supergravity to the Minkowsky space

TL;DR

This paper presents a universal scheme for reducing N=1, D=10 supergravity to Minkowski space, preserving supersymmetry and excluding extra matter multiplets, applicable to both usual and dual formulations.

Contribution

It introduces a minimal reduction scheme for N=1, D=10 supergravity to N=4, D=4 Minkowski space, applicable to both standard and dual supergravity theories, with explicit constraints and effective potential.

Findings

Constraints effectively exclude extra matter multiplets.

The reduction scheme preserves supersymmetry.

Effective potential of the reduced theory is derived.

Abstract

The reduction from N=1, D=10 to N=4, D=4 supergravity with the Yang-Mills matter is considered. For this purpose a set of constraints is imposed in order to exclude six additional abelian matter multiplets and conserve the supersymmetry. We consider both the cases of usual and dual N=1, D=10 supergravity using the superspace approach. Also the effective potential of the deriving theory is written.