We present a pedagogical overview of flux compactifications in string theory, from the basic
ideas to the most recent developments. We concentrate on closed-string fluxes in type-II …

The past two decades have seen transformative advances in cosmology and string theory.
Observations of the cosmic microwave background have revealed strong evidence for …

We review a progress in obtaining the complete non-perturbative effective action of type II
string theory compactified on a Calabi–Yau manifold. This problem is equivalent to …

String loop corrections to Kähler potentials in orientifolds Page 1 Journal of High Energy
Physics String loop corrections to Kähler potentials in orientifolds To cite this article: Marcus …

A bstract We review the ghost-free four-derivative terms for chiral superfields in\(\mathcal
{N}= 1\) supersymmetry and supergravity. These terms induce cubic polynomial equations of …

A bstract We study string loop corrections to the gravity kinetic terms in type IIB com-
pactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds or their orbifold limits, in the presence of D7-branes …

We elaborate on the off-shell superspace construction of curvature-squared invariants in
minimal five-dimensional supergravity. This is described by the standard Weyl multiplet of …

The first quantum correction to the IIA string effective action arises at the eight-derivative
level and takes the schematic form (t8t8− 18ϵ10ϵ10) R4+ B2∧ X8. This correction …

A bstract We present for the first time the component structure of the supersymmetric
completions for all curvature-squared invariants of five-dimensional, off-shell (gauged) …

A bstract We study the non-linear structure of Type IIB eight-derivative couplings involving
the metric and the complexified three-form G 3. We show that, at the level of five-point string …