Stringy Corrections to Heterotic SU(3)-Geometry

Abstract: We analyse the $\alpha'^2$ corrections to the supersymmetry algebra constructed by Bergshoeff de Roo for heterotic compactifications on SU(3) manifolds. The geometry remains complex, conformally balanced, but H and the hermitian form $\omega$ are corrected to $H = i(\partial - \bar\partial)\omega + \alpha' P$, with P determined in terms of dH. The supersymmetry algebra is integrable if and only if the graviton equation of motion is corrected, though the correction is pure gauge. We derive the same condition independently from hermitian geometry. The curvature of the tangent bundle connection acquires a nonzero (0,2) component with its trace fixed in terms of dH.