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arxiv: 1502.07537 · v2 · pith:4YN3KJF4new · submitted 2015-02-26 · ✦ hep-th

Universality of radiative corrections to gauge couplings for strings with spontaneously broken supersymmetry

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keywords gaugebrokencorrectionscouplingsmathcalradiativespontaneouslysupersymmetry
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I review recent work on computing radiative corrections to non-abelian gauge couplings in four-dimensional heterotic vacua with spontaneously broken supersymmetry. The prototype models can be considered as K3 surfaces with additional Scherk-Schwarz fluxes inducing the spontaneous $\mathcal{N}=2 \to \mathcal{N}=0$ breaking. Remarkably, although the gauge thresholds are no longer BPS protected and receive contributions also from the excitations of the RNS sector, their difference is still exactly computable and universal. Based on a talk presented at the DISCRETE 2014 conference at King's College London.

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