Brane world effective actions for D-branes with fluxes

Abstract

We develop systematic string techniques to study brane world effective actions for models with magnetized (or equivalently intersecting) D-branes. In particular, we derive the dependence on all NS–NS moduli of the kinetic terms of the chiral matter in a generic non-supersymmetric brane configurations with non-commuting open string fluxes. Near a N = 1 supersymmetric point the effective action is consistent with a Fayet–Iliopoulos supersymmetry breaking and the normalization of the scalar kinetic terms is nothing else than the Kähler metric. We also discuss, from a stringy perspective, D and F term breaking mechanisms, and how, in this generic set up, the Kähler metric enters in the physical Yukawa couplings.