Abstract

Motivated by the standard form of the string-theory amplitude, we calculate the field-theory amplitude to complete the higher-derivative terms in type II supergravity theories in their conventional form. We derive explicitly the O(alpha '^3) interactions for the RR (Ramond–Ramond) fields with graviton, B-field and dilaton in the low-energy effective action of type II superstrings. We check our results by comparison with previous work that has been done by the other methods, and we find exact agreement.

Highlights

  • Higher-derivative corrections to string theories and M-theory are importantly studied in various ways: string amplitude [1,2,3,4,5,6,7], non-linear sigma model [8,9], superfield and noether’s method [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17], duality completion [18,19,20,21], and so on. Each of these approaches has been employed in different formalisms such as the RNS (Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz) [22,23,24], GS (Green-Schwarz) [17,20,26,27] and pure-spinor [28] formalisms to determine the higher-order terms

  • It is well known that the low-energy effective action of superstring theory is given by supergravity describing only the interactions of massless modes in the string-theory spectrum

  • We have compared the results of this paper with the corresponding couplings which have been obtained from string amplitude calculations in the RNS [23] and pure-spinor formalisms [28] as well as the T-duality approach [18,23], and we find exact agreement when we write both couplings in terms of independent variables

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Summary

Introduction

Higher-derivative corrections to string theories and M-theory are importantly studied in various ways: string amplitude [1,2,3,4,5,6,7], non-linear sigma model [8,9], superfield and noether’s method [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17], duality completion [18,19,20,21], and so on. It is well known that the low-energy effective action of superstring theory is given by supergravity describing only the interactions of massless modes in the string-theory spectrum This can be shown explicitly by calculating the fieldtheory amplitudes of massless states [25]. The scattering amplitudes of massless states in superstring theory include corrections to their corresponding low-energy effective actions. These terms contain α corrections to the supergravity which arise due to the length of the fundamental string s and string coupling constant gs which correspond to string quantum corrections in spacetime. Feynman rules for the processes we want to compute By employing these rules we calculate the tree-level fourpoint amplitude for two RR–two NSNS scattering to find higher-derivative corrections to type II supergravities in their. We compare our results with previous work and find exact agreement

Brief review of type II supergravity
Field-theory amplitude

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