We study under what conditions massive fields can be ``frozen'' rather than integrated out in certain four dimensional theories with global or local N=1$ supersymmetry. We focus on models without gauge fields, admitting a superpotential of the form W = W_0(H) + epsilon W_1(H,L), with epsilon << 1, where H and L schematically denote the heavy and light chiral superfields. We find that the fields H can always be frozen to constant values H_0, if they approximately correspond to supersymmetric solutions along the H directions, independently of the form of the K"ahler potential K for H and L, provided K is sufficiently regular. In supergravity W_0 is required to be of order $epsilon$ at the vacuum to ensure a mass hierarchy between H and L. The backreaction induced by the breaking of supersymmetry on the heavy fields is always negligible, leading to suppressed F^H--terms. For factorizable K"ahler potentials W_0 can instead be generic. Our results imply that the common way complex structure and dilaton moduli are stabilized, as in Phys. Rev. D {f 68} (2003) 046005 by Kachru et al., for instance, is reliable to a very good accuracy, provided W_0 is small enough.

An effective description of the landscape - I / Gallego, D; Serone, Marco. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - 1(2009). [10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/056]

An effective description of the landscape - I

Serone, Marco
2009-01-01

Abstract

We study under what conditions massive fields can be ``frozen'' rather than integrated out in certain four dimensional theories with global or local N=1$ supersymmetry. We focus on models without gauge fields, admitting a superpotential of the form W = W_0(H) + epsilon W_1(H,L), with epsilon << 1, where H and L schematically denote the heavy and light chiral superfields. We find that the fields H can always be frozen to constant values H_0, if they approximately correspond to supersymmetric solutions along the H directions, independently of the form of the K"ahler potential K for H and L, provided K is sufficiently regular. In supergravity W_0 is required to be of order $epsilon$ at the vacuum to ensure a mass hierarchy between H and L. The backreaction induced by the breaking of supersymmetry on the heavy fields is always negligible, leading to suppressed F^H--terms. For factorizable K"ahler potentials W_0 can instead be generic. Our results imply that the common way complex structure and dilaton moduli are stabilized, as in Phys. Rev. D {f 68} (2003) 046005 by Kachru et al., for instance, is reliable to a very good accuracy, provided W_0 is small enough.
2009
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Gallego, D; Serone, Marco
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