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Title: Supergravity coupled to chiral matter at one loop

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)
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  1. Department of Physics, University of California and Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

We extend earlier calculations of the one-loop contributions to the effective Bose Lagrangian in supergravity coupled to chiral matter. We evaluate all logarithmically divergent contributions for arbitrary background scalar fields and space-time metrics. We show that, with a judicious choice of gauge fixing and of the definition of the action expansion, much of the result can be absorbed into a redefinition of the metric and a renormalization of the Kaehler potential. Most of the remaining terms depend on the curvature of the Kaehler metric. Further simplification occurs in models obtained from superstrings in which the Kaehler Riemann tensor is covariantly constant.

DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
5323001
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Vol. 49:4; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English