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We study dimensional reductions of M-theory/type II strings down to 6D in the presence of fluxes and spacetime filling branes and orientifold planes of different types. We classify all inequivalent orientifold projections giving rise to \( \mathcal{N} \) = (1, 1) supergravities in 6D and work out the embedding tensor/fluxes dictionary for each of those. Finally we analyze the set of vacua for the different classes of reductions and find an abundance of “no-scale” type Minkowski vacua, as well as a few novel examples of (A)dS extrema.
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Dibitetto, G., Fernández-Melgarejo, J.J. & Nozawa, M. 6D (1,1) gauged supergravities from orientifold compactifications. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 15 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2020)015
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