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Aravind Aikot

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arXiv2026

$G_2$ flux compactifications

We derive the three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ effective theories obtained by compactifying all five ten-dimensional string theories on generic seven-dimensional manifolds with $G_2$ structure. The resulting flux compactifications are worked out explicitly, including the full moduli dependence of the scalar potential, kinetic terms, axionic sectors, gauge fields, Stückelberg couplings, and the allowed geometric and form-flux data. Our results extend previous analyses by incorporating fields and fluxes that are generically present in $G_2$ reductions, and provide a unified framework for comparing type IIA, type IIB, type I and heterotic compactifications to three dimensions. In particular, the effective theories organize naturally in terms of the real superpotential formulation of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity, making the relation between fluxes, torsion, Chern--Simons data, and moduli potentials manifest.

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arXiv2025

Supersymmetric truncation of N=3 dilaton Weyl multiplet

We perform all possible supersymmetric truncations of the four-dimensional N=3 dilaton Weyl multiplet, which realizes an R-symmetry $SU(2) \times U(1) \times U(1)$, to N=2. A particular truncation procedure does not break any of the R-symmetries and leads to the known N=2 vector-dilaton Weyl multiplet and the N=2 vector multiplet. A different truncation procedure breaks the SU(2) part of the R-symmetry to U(1) and leads to a 32+32 off-shell representation of N=2 conformal supergravity with a partially broken R-symmetry. Independently, we construct another 32+32 off-shell multiplet in N=2 conformal supergravity by coupling the N=2 scalar-tensor multiplet to the N=2 standard Weyl multiplet and using the scalar fields present in the scalar-tensor multiplet to break the SU(2) R-symmetry to U(1). We then establish the equivalence between these two multiplets through a mapping. We observe that this 32+32 multiplet is gauge equivalent to a Poincaré supergravity multiplet as it has all the compensators necessary to go from conformal supergravity to Poincaré supergravity.

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arXiv2025

Scalar-Tensor multiplet in four dimensional N=2 conformal supergravity

We study various N=2 multiplets in four dimensions by looking at the supersymmetric truncation of four dimensional N=3 multiplets. Under supersymmetric truncation, the off-shell N=3 Weyl multiplet reduces to the off-shell N=2 Weyl multiplet and the off-shell N=2 vector multiplet (which we will refer to as the central charge multiplet). Under the same truncation, the on-shell N=3 vector multiplet reduces to the on-shell N=2 vector multiplet and an on-shell massive hypermultiplet with a broken rigid SU(2) and a non-trivial central charge transformation. We use the field equations of this hypermultiplet to eliminate some of the fields of the central charge multiplet in terms of the fields of the hypermultiplet and a dual tensor gauge field (similar in spirit to how a dilaton Weyl multiplet is constructed). This results in a new off-shell matter multiplet, with 8+8 degrees of freedom, containing scalar fields and a tensor gauge field, which we refer to as the scalar-tensor multiplet.

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arXiv2025

Dilaton Weyl multiplets for $N = 3$ conformal supergravity in four dimensions

We construct a dilaton Weyl multiplet for $N = 3$ conformal supergravity in four dimensions. We couple an on-shell vector multiplet to the standard Weyl multiplet and use the field equations of the vector multiplet to replace some of the components of the auxiliary fields of the standard Weyl multiplet with the fields of the vector multiplet and some dual gauge fields. The R-symmetry of the multiplet is $SU(2) \times U(1) \times U(1)$. Furthermore, we gauge fix one of the two $U(1)$ symmetries and rewrite the result for the dilaton Weyl multiplet with $SU(2) \times U(1)$ R-symmetry.

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arXiv2025

Variant dilaton Weyl Multiplet for N=3 conformal supergravity in four dimensions

We construct a new dilaton Weyl multiplet for $\mathcal{N}=3$ conformal supergravity in four dimensions. The R-symmetry realized on this dilaton Weyl multiplet is $SU(2) \times U(1) \times U(1)$. The construction follows a two-step procedure. Firstly, two on-shell vector multiplets are coupled to the standard Weyl multiplet. Secondly, using the field equations of the vector multiplets, some of the auxiliary fields of the standard Weyl multiplet are solved in terms of the fields belonging to the vector multiplets and some dual gauge fields. The remaining fields of the standard Weyl multiplet combine with the vector multiplet fields and the dual gauge fields to constitute the new dilaton Weyl multiplet.

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