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Generalised Complex Geometry provides a natural interpretation of the \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 supersymmetry conditions for warped solutions of type II supergravity as differential equations on polyforms on the internal manifold. Written in this language the supersymmetry conditions correspond to calibration conditions for probe D-branes: D-string, domain-wall or space-filling branes, depending on the directions they span in the non-compact four-dimensional space. The BPS condition corresponding to the calibration of space-filling D-branes has been reformulated by Tomasiello, eliminating the explicit dependence on the metric. We generalise this derivation to the case of non-supersymmetric backgrounds violating the domain-wall and D-string calibration conditions. We use this reformulation to derive constraints that the ten-dimensional solutions with BPS space-filling sources must respect in order to dimensionally reduce to solutions of four-dimensional \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 supergravity with non-vanishing F-terms and potentially non-vanishing D-terms. We give the equations of motion for the class of type II vacua satisfying these constraints in the language of pure spinors. We investigate how restrictive these constraints are for the class of type IIB SU(3) backgrounds with BPS space-filling O5-planes.
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It is a pleasure to thank Davide Cassani, Mariana Gra na, Luca Martucci, Michela Petrini, Alessandro Tomasiello, Thomas Van Riet and Dan Waldram for insightful discussions, and Anthony Ashmore for comments on the draft.
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Menet, V. D-terms in generalised complex geometry. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 71 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2024)071
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