One-loop regularization of supergravity: The dilaton and the superfield formulation
- Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
The on-shell regularization of the one-loop divergences of supergravity theories is generalized to include a dilaton of the type occurring in effective field theories derived from superstring theory, and the superfield structure of the one-loop corrections is given. Field theory anomalies and quantum contributions to soft supersymmetry breaking are discussed. The latter are sensitive to the precise choice of couplings that generate Pauli-Villars masses, which in turn reflect the details of the underlying theory above the scale of the effective cutoff. With a view to the implementation the Green-Schwarz and other mechanisms for canceling field theory anomalies under a U(1) gauge transformation and under the T-duality group of modular transformations, we show that the Kaehler potential renormalization for the untwisted sector of orbifold compactification can be made invariant under these groups. (c) 2000 The American Physical Society.
- OSTI ID:
- 20216147
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 61, Issue 8; Other Information: PBD: 15 Apr 2000; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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