A note on the quartic effective action of type IIB superstring

Giuseppe Policastro (1) , Dimitrios Tsimpis

1 LPTENS - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure]

We recast the result of our recent computation of the quartic action of ten-dimensional IIB supergravity in a manifestly SL(2,R)-covariant form. This affords us a critical assessment of an earlier conjecture in the literature.

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Théorie [hep-th]

Giuseppe Policastro, Dimitrios Tsimpis. A note on the quartic effective action of type IIB superstring. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2009, 26, pp.125001. ⟨hal-00348297⟩