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Dimensional oxidation of non-geometric fluxes in type II orientifolds

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Some aspects of string compactifications with non-geometric fluxes are revisited in the light of recent progress in double field theory. After rederiving the general form of these fluxes, we consider the proposed flux induced four-dimensional effective superpotential and oxidize its induced scalar potential to terms in a ten-dimensional action. This analysis is performed independently for an explicit toroidal type IIA and its T-dual type IIB orientifold. We show in detail that the result of this bottom-up approach is compatible with the gauged supergravity motivated flux formulation of the double field theory action in both the NS-NS and the R-R sector.

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    Ralph Blumenhagen, Xin Gao, Daniela Herschmann & Pramod Shukla

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Blumenhagen, R., Gao, X., Herschmann, D. et al. Dimensional oxidation of non-geometric fluxes in type II orientifolds. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 201 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2013)201

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