The Infinitesimal Moduli Space of Heterotic G2 Systems

• Heterotic string compactifications on integrable G(2) structure manifolds Y with instanton bundles (V, A), (TY, (theta) over tilde )yield supersymmetric three-dimensional vacua that are of interest in physics. In this paper, we define a covariant exterior derivative D and show that it is equivalent to a heterotic G(2) system encoding the geometry of the heterotic string compactifications. This operator D acts on a bundle Q = T*Y circle plus End (V) circle plus End (TY) and satisfies a nilpotency condition (sic)(2) = 0, for an appropriate projection of D. Furthermore, we determine the infinitesimal moduli space of these systems and show that it corresponds to the finite-dimensional cohomology group (sic)(1)((sic)) (Q). We comment on the similarities and differences of our result with Atiyah's well-known analysis of deformations of holmorphic vector bundles over complex manifolds. Our analysis leads to results that are of relevance to all orders in the alpha' expansion.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Subatomär fysik (hsv//swe)

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