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Gauged Supergravity from Dimensional Reduction

E. Bergshoeff, M. de Roo, E. Eyras

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9707130

Abstract

We perform a generalised Scherk-Schwarz reduction of the effective action of the heterotic string on T6 to obtain a massive N=4 supergravity theory in four dimensions. The local symmetry-group of the resulting d=4 theory includes a Heisenberg group, which is a subgroup of the global O(6,6+n) obtained in the standard reduction. We show explicitly that the same theory can be obtained by gauging this Heisenberg group in d=4, N=4 supergravity.

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