Dimensional Reduction for D3-brane Moduli

Warped string compactifications are central to many attempts to stabilize moduli and connect string theory with cosmology and particle phenomenology. We present a first-principles derivation of the low-energy 4D effective theory from dimensional reduction of a D3-brane in a warped Calabi-Yau compactification of type IIB string theory with imaginary self-dual 3-form flux, including effects of D3-brane motion beyond the probe approximation, and find the metric on the moduli space of brane positions, the universal volume modulus, and axions descending from the 4-form potential. As D3-branes may be considered as carrying either electric or magnetic charges for the self-dual 5-form field strength, we present calculations in both duality frames. Our results are consistent with, but extend significantly, earlier results on the low-energy effective theory arising from D3-branes in string compactifications.


Introduction
In any theory with extra dimensions, a first step towards understanding its dynamics is to construct a low energy, 4-dimensional effective theory. In such an effective description, the dynamical degrees of freedom arise as particular fluctuations of the fields present in the higher dimensions. As a classic example, 5-dimensional gravity on a circle gives rise at low energies to a 4-dimensional effective theory with gravity, a U (1) gauge field, and a scalar, all of which arise as fluctuations of the bulk 5-dimensional metric. In string theory, the low energy limit of compactification also leads to a 4-dimensional effective theory in which the 4-dimensional degrees of freedom arise from fluctuations of the original 10-dimensional fields. These can include bulk fields such as the metric and p-form gauge fields, as well as localized sources like branes. The details of the effective theory depend on the details of the compact space and other fields of the higher-dimensional background, and much work has gone into deriving these effective theories (see [1][2][3][4] for example). Typically, these effective theories are derived by dimensionally reducing the higher dimensional action for some particular ansatz of the higher dimensional fields (specifically a zero mode of the appropriate differential operator on the extra dimensions). However, as we emphasize, care must be taken that the ansatz chosen is a consistent solution to the higher-dimensional equations of motion. One set of essential ingredients in string compactifications are the dynamics of localized sources such as D-branes. D-branes arise in string compactifications as sources of Standard-Model-like fields [5], supersymmetry-breaking uplifiting [6], and sources of cosmic inflation (as in [7]; see also the reviews [8,9]). The 4-dimensional effective theory for D-branes is commonly obtained by dimensional reduction of the localized Dirac-Born-Infeld and Chern-Simons actions in the probe approximation. However, the probe approximation cannot address several related conceptual problems.
As an example, consider a Dp-brane in an internal space described by the coordinates {y m }, so that the brane spans 4-dimensional spacetime {x µ } embedded with coordinates Y . Figure 1. A spacetime-dependent fluctuation of a brane can be described by its transverse coordinates (left). However, it is also possible to redefine the coordinates in a spacetime-dependent way, so the brane fluctuation is "gauged away" (right). In this case, the brane fluctuation is "eaten" by the metric.
Let us write the D-brane embedding as a constant reference value plus a spacetime-dependent fluctuation Y = Y 0 + δY (x). In the probe approximation, the D-brane degrees of freedom are described by the spacetime-dependent transverse coordinates ∂ µ Y = ∂ µ δY (x) and are independent fluctuations in 10-dimensions. However, when the brane is coupled to gravity it is always possible to make a spacetime-dependent coordinate redefinition (diffeomorphism) of the transverse coordinates y →ỹ, Y →Ỹ so hypersurfaces of constantỹ coincide with the worldvolume of the D-brane, as in Figure 1. The brane embedding coordinates no longer encode the D-brane degrees of freedom, since they are now, by definition, spacetime-independent ∂ µỸ = 0. The D-brane degrees of freedom have been "eaten" by the metric, and the effective theory for the D-brane degrees of freedom now arises not from the localized sources but from the dynamics of the metric. It is interesting to note that this lack of diffeomorphism invariance of the D-brane transverse coordinates implies that the true diffeomorphism invariant degrees of freedom describing the motion of D-branes are a combination of the transverse coordinates and the metric -a combination of open and closed string sectors.
One might think that the simplest resolution is just to fix the gauge such that all of the degrees of freedom are found in the transverse coordinates and not in the metric. Unfortunately, the linearized higher dimensional equations of motion (EOM) do not allow one to choose a gauge with vanishing metric fluctuations. As an example, consider a scalar field in a 4-dimensional homogeneous and isotropic cosmological background. Fluctuations of the scalar field about a time-dependent background φ = φ 0 (t) + δφ(t, x) can be removed by an appropriate time redefinition t →t(t, x) so that the true gauge-invariant degree of freedom is a combination of scalar field and metric fluctuations [10]. It is not possible to work in a fixed gauge in which the fluctuation only appears in the scalar field, setting the metric fluctuations to zero, because there is a contribution to the off-diagonal Einstein equations of the form These off-diagonal Einstein equations act as non-dynamical constraints on the fluctuations, and must be solved for a consistent dynamical description of the scalar perturbations, even at linear order. As is well known, the correct ansatz for scalar cosmological perturbation theory includes simultaneous fluctuations of the metric and scalar field, allowing one to consistently solve the constraint equations. The metric fluctuations then play an important role in determining the equation of motion for the dynamics of the scalar degree of freedom.
Similarly, there is no consistent gauge in which the metric does not contain any of the degrees of freedom for the D-brane. In particular, an ansatz with a static metric but spacetimedependent D-brane fails in two ways even at linear order. First, the change in brane position backreacts on the 10-dimensional metric (specifically the warp factor). In addition, there is a contribution to the off-diagonal 10-dimensional Einstein equations through the energymomentum tensor of the form These constraints on the D-brane motion arise from the required gauge-fixing described above, much like the Gauss law constraint of electromagnetism or the Hamiltonian and momentum constraints of gravitation. As a result, the probe-brane effective theory based on the D-brane degrees of freedom residing entirely in the localized transverse coordinates is incomplete. The appropriate 10-dimensional ansatz will require including parts of the D-brane degrees of freedom in both the metric and the transverse coordinates, as we will see. One concern with moving beyond the probe approximation is that inserting the backreacted brane solution into the effective action could cause a "self-energy" problem in which the effective action diverges. We explicitly show in section 3.3 that when one carefully performs a dimensional reduction which solves the constraint equations the resulting effective action does not contain any such divergent self-energy terms.
In this paper, as a test case and for concreteness, we will focus on the dynamics of D3-branes in the type IIB backgrounds of the form given in [11][12][13][14] (commonly called GKP compactifications). In these backgrounds, the positions of D3-branes (along with metric Kähler moduli and various axions) are moduli, and the effective theory is described by a 4D supergravity (possibly with spontaneous supersymmetry breaking). As a result, the effective theory arises from a Kähler potential (see for example [1,7,15]). One challenge for the construction of an effective theory in GKP backgrounds is that the metric becomes a warped product between the internal and external spaces, complicating the identification of the degrees of freedom. The supersymmetry of the background along with the fact that scaling the warp factor can be removed with a 10D diffeomorphism has allowed [16][17][18] to derive many aspects of the effective theory without a direct dimensional reduction.
However, to work with generic warped compactifications without so much structure, it is necessary to develop techniques for dimensional reduction in warped metrics. For example, [19] showed that the dilaton and volume modulus are identified under diffeomorphisms for warped backgrounds with a dilaton profile. Fortunately, work on warped effective field theory (see [19][20][21][22][23][24][25]) has led to some useful formalisms [19,22] for constructing and analyzing fluctuations of these 10-dimensional backgrounds and their effective theories. In [24], the effective theory for the universal volume modulus and its associated axion was derived for GKP compactifications, while [25] improved and extended this analysis to include the rest of the axion sector. 1 Our first-principles approach is to choose an ansatz in a fixed gauge (for diffeomorphisms and the supergravity form fields) and ensure that it solves all the constraints of the 10D theory even when the 4D fluctuation is off shell.
An initial attempt [26] to derive the effective theory for D3-branes in these backgrounds was unable to solve the constraint equations coming from the higher-dimensional EOM and was unable to derive the terms (including mixing terms) necessary to construct the Kähler potential and effective theory. We will use the formalism and techniques developed in [19,25] to obtain an ansatz which does solve all of the higher dimensional EOM and to derive all the necessary terms in the effective theory. It is not essential that the D3-brane we study in this paper is localized in a strongly warped region: the effects discussed above are inherent to the D-brane's interaction with the background, and thus will be present regardless of the strength of the warping at the location of the D3-brane.
In fact, we will present two calculations of this effective action. The self-duality of the type IIB five-form causes the action to vanish if all the components of the 10D covariant tensor are included. Following [14], we discard half the components of the five-form in the dimensional reduction of the action. If we keep components with legs mostly along the external dimensions, the D3-brane carries an electric charge for the five-form; keeping the complementary set of components leads the D3-brane to carry magnetic monopole charge. In the former case, axions of the 4D theory arise as 2-form degrees of freedom, and cross terms between the brane position and axion descend from the brane's Wess-Zumino action. Meanwhile, in the latter case, we solve the nontrivial Bianchi identity by finding a field redefinition that gives the 5-form field strength an explicit dependence on the brane position, and cross terms in the kinetic action arise directly through backreaction of the brane on the field strength. This procedure is also applied to magnetic monopoles in Maxwell theory in an upcoming paper [27].
The plan of our paper is as follows. In section 2, we review the background compactification, the procedure for dimensional reduction, and the EOM of type IIB supergravity with D3-branes. We then give the dimensional reduction in the version of the theory in which the D3-brane carries electric charge for the five-form in 3, followed by the analogous calculation for the magnetically charged D3-brane in section 4. In these two sections, we provide a short summary at the end of each subsection encapsulating the important results as an aid to the reader. We close with a discussion; conventions and formalism are found in the appendices.

Flux Compactifications
To set our conventions, we work in the bosonic sector of type IIB string theory as described by the low-energy supergravity (SUGRA) where R is the ten-dimensional (10D) Ricci scalar, and κ 10 is the 10D Newton's constant. We have defined the axio-dilaton τ = C 0 + ie −φ , combined the 3-forms F 3 = dC 2 and H 3 = dB 2 into the complex 3-form G 3 = F 3 − τ H 3 , and defined the five-form field strength asF 5 = dC 4 − C 2 ∧ H 3 , which is constrained to be self-dual:F 5 = F 5 . S loc is the action for all the local objects, including D3-branes. The background fields of GKP compactifications take the form where {x µ } spans 4-dimensional (4D) spacetime and {y m } spans the internal dimensions. The unwarped metricsη µν ,g mn are respectively Minkowski and Calabi-Yau (CY). We denote objects constructed with respect toη µν with a hat and those with respect tog mn with a tilde. The three-form field strength is harmonic, and the background warp factor, A (0) (y), obeys a Poisson equation∇ where · · · are other local sources including more D3-branes (which also contribute delta function sources), D7-branes, and negative charge and tension orientifold O3-and O7-planes.
Although only a single D3-brane (located at Y ) is considered here and throughout, the extension to multiple, non-interacting branes of this type is trivial. Furthermore, we work in the orientifold limit where four D7-branes are coincident with each O7-plane for simplicity, although we expect our results to generalize straightforwardly to F-theory. A nontrivial G 3 also stabilizes moduli of the compactification, generically including all the complex structure moduli ofg mn and the axiodilaton τ . (See [25] for a more complete review of the effects of the flux on moduli stabilization.) As a result, we assume that the complex structure and τ are constant. In addition, the background is supersymmetric at the classical level when G (0) 3 is (2, 1) in the CY complex coordinates; 2 if the flux breaks supersymmetry, it does so spontaneously [20], and the effective theory can be described by 4D SUGRA.
With τ assumed to be constant, we can write G 3 = dA 2 in terms of a complex potential A 2 = B 2 − τ C 2 . In this case, it is common to redefine C 4 to setF 5 . We will use this definition forF 5 henceforth.

Dimensional Reduction and the Kinetic Action
To determine the effective 4D theory, we must first decompose the 10D fields into orthogonal modes, each of which corresponds to a 4D degree of freedom. In a product space compactification, these modes are simply the eigenfunctions of some second order differential operator on the compact space (for example, the Laplacian for a scalar or the Hodge-de Rham operator for a form field). However, the constraints described in the introduction complicate matters somewhat for warped compactifications. We are particularly interested in clasically massless moduli, so we consider only those modes that satisfy the massless Klein-Gordon equation in the external x µ directions. The following sections will describe the structure of these massless modes; here, we will outline the procedure of dimensionally reducing the action once the linearized modes are known, following [25].
To find the two-derivative kinetic action in terms of a metric G ab (φ) on moduli space, we need find only the action to quadratic order in fluctuations around the background -as long as we expand the background around an arbitrary point φ 0 in moduli space, we recover the full dependence of the metric on the moduli. While our primary consideration is D3-brane position moduli, we are interested in the metric on the Kähler moduli space of the CY. We therefore also consider the universal volume modulus and axions descending from the 4-form potential (which are partners of the Kähler metric moduli). Because the 4D effective theory is a SUGRA, the moduli space is naturally described in terms of holomorphic coordinates, and the metric is defined in terms of a Kähler potential.
This quadratic action can be written in terms of the first-order fluctuations and the linearized EOM, as demonstrated in [25] (and used implicitly in [23]). Specifically, for type IIB SUGRA, we can write where δE mn is the linearized Einstein equation, δE 6 the linearized EOM for the 4-form, δE 8 for the 2-form potential, and δE / M for the D3-brane position. The EOM for the world-volume metric γ ab (as described below) are higher-order (and constraints), so they do not contribute (though γ ab should be evaluated on the solution). Note that we have labeled the brane embedding coordinate X / M (ξ) with a slashed index to indicate that tensors at that point do not contract with tensors at a general point x M in spacetime, and this term is integrated over the brane worldvolume coordinates as well as spacetime. Furthermore, these are the EOM as they directly arise from the variation of the action; in particular, the equations of type IIB SUGRA are often reorganized to remove terms proportional to E 6 from E 8 . There are also two subtleties to note. First, there is not actually a covariant action in 10D that respects the self-duality of the 5-form field strength, 3 so (2.4) includes only some of the components of C 4 and the corresponding EOM. We describe our approach to this subtlety in §2.3 below. Second, [25] arrives at the action (2.4) after an integration by parts; in some cases, there are terms in the action which are quadratic in fluctuations but contribute no terms to the linearized EOM (for example, the axionic coupling θF 2 where the field strength is first order). These terms must be added separately to the quadratic action, as we will see in section 3.3.
The action (2.4) should also be understood in a fixed gauge (for diffeomorphisms, form gauge transformations, and worldvolume reparameterization). We choose a gauge in which the underlying CY metricg mn of the internal directions does not fluctuate (and form potential gauge as described below); for D3-branes with internal positions Y / m that vary slowly over the external spacetime, we find it convenient to use a static gauge ξ a = δ a / µ X / µ (ξ) so that fluctuations of X / µ are gauged away (with |∂ a Y / m | assumed to be small).

Equations of Motion with D3-brane Sources
In this section, we summarize the 10-dimensional EOM for type IIB supergravity with D3brane sources. The bulk SUGRA equations are well-known [29], but the brane sources are less familiar. We therefore simply state the bulk terms but provide a brief derivation of the D3 sources. As in section 2.2, we use slashed indices at the D3-brane position; the parallel propagator Λ / M M (x, X) (or its inverse) switches index type for fields evaluated at coincidence (i.e. when multiplied by a delta function).
The variation of the action with respect to the metric, E M N , is so that setting E M N = 0 gives the 10-dimensional Einstein equations. The contributions to the energy-momentum from the 5-form flux (given 5-form self-duality) and background 3-form are The D3-brane coupling to the metric enters in the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) terms in the brane action; if we ignore couplings to the 2-form potentials and world-volume gauge field (justified below), we can replace the usual DBI action for the brane with a classically equivalent Polyakov-like form where γ ab is an independent worldvolume metric which equals the induced metric P (g) Regarding delta functions in curved spacetime, we refer the reader to appendix B. The resulting energy-momentum from D3-branes is then A similar expression leads to the energy-momentum T loc M N from localized sources other than the mobile D3-brane of interest. For notational convenience, we will often make the parallel propagators implicit, writing for example g M / P = Λ / M M g / M / P . Self-duality ofF 5 raises some complications for dimensional reduction at the level of the action. Specifically, evaluating (2.1) on a self-dual 5-form leads to a vanishing kinetic term, whether on or off shell. The prescription we follow is to replace (2.1) by a non-covariant action, retaining only half the components ofF 5 and doubling the coefficient of theF 5 ∧ F 5 term in the action. We will make two distinct choices for the sets of components to keep: the "electric" set with 4 or 3 legs on x µ and 1 or 2 respectively on y m , and the "magnetic" set with 0 or 1 leg on x µ and 5 or 4 on y m (an equal number of components with 2 on x µ and 3 on y m fall in each set, but these all vanish for the moduli we consider). The corresponding components of C 4 for the electric set couple electrically to the D3-brane, whereas the D3brane is a magnetic source for the magnetic set. 4 It is worth noting that the components in each set are Hodge dual to the components in the other set.
We begin by considering the theory for the electric components. In this case, the Bianchi identity is trivial (dF 5 = 0), and the source for d F 5 arises through the D3-brane Wess-Zumino (WZ) action (again ignoring couplings to the 2-form potentials for now) where is the push-forward of the antisymmetric world-volume tensor. We define the pushforward as and take parallel propagators to be implicit in the 10D Hodge star. As we will see below, D3branes which are mutually BPS with the background have charge equal to tension µ 3 = T 3 .
The resulting 5-form EOM, including contributions from the 3-form, is therefore (2.11) and vanishes on shell. 5 Since the 3-form has at most one leg in the external spacetime, G 3 contributes only to the EOM and not the Bianchi identity. The EOM and Bianchi identity for the magnetic components ofF 5 are simply given by exchangingF 5 ↔ F 5 in the corresponding equations for the electric components. Therefore, the EOM is E 6 = d F 5 , while the Bianchi identity becomes We will consider both (2.11, 2.12) in the static gauge later. As discussed in [20,24,25], the nontrivial Bianchi identity (2.12) for the magnetic components means that perturbations of C 4 as defined in (2.1) and below are not globally defined on the CY manifold. Those references studied the Bianchi identity in the absence of D3-branes and found a field redefinition with a globally-defined 4-form potential. In terms of the new C 4 (in the absence of axions descending from A 2 ), perturbations ofF 5 are 3 ). We will review this field redefinition and demonstrate the additional redefinition needed for the D3-brane contribution to the Bianchi identity in section 4.
The 3-form is somewhat simpler; the Bianchi identity is trivial dG 3 = 0 for constant axio-dilaton τ , and the EOM is with either electric or magnetic components forF 5 . The coefficients of the last two terms are given in keeping with our prescription to double theF 5 kinetic term. Since we do not consider axions that descend from A 2 or their backgrounds, the last term of (2.13) will not contribute. Finally, we need to determine the 10-dimensional D3-brane EOM. Due to the different couplings to the electric and magnetic components of the 5-form, these equations take different forms depending on which version of the theory we consider. Here we present the more familiar electric version and discuss the magnetic version in section 4 below. Using the normalization of (2.4), variation of (2.7, 2.9) gives 6 . 5 There is one subtlety with factors of 2; when varying the covariant action (2.1), we replace µ3 → µ3/2 in S loc since the WZ term includes magnetic and electric couplings. This is equivalent to keeping only the electric components ofF5 and doubling the coefficient of theF5 F 5 term as in [14]. 6 The Euler-Lagrange equations also apparently contain terms proportional to ∂ / M δ 10 (x, X); however, in the variation of the action, these terms vanish upon converting the X / M derivative to an x M derivative and integrating by parts. We therefore do not consider them to be part of the EOM.
This EOM allows us to set our sign convention for the D3-brane charge (since |µ 3 | = T 3 ). Consider a static D3-brane ∂ a Y / m = 0 in static gauge in the background described above.
Both of these vanish for the choice µ 3 = T 3 . We now justify ignoring the 2-form potential couplings in both the DBI and WZ actions, despite the fact that they appear in the background with nontrivial G (0) 3 . The main point is that the background potentials have completely internal legs and are pulled back to the world volume by two powers of the small derivatives ∂ a Y / m . Furthermore, in a perturbative expansion of the DBI action, the pulled-back potential P (B 2 ) enters either at second-order, or contracted with the world-volume field strength. These terms are 3rd and 4th order in fluctuations, so we ignore them. The WZ terms containing P (C 2 ) and P (B 2 ) are similarly 3rd and 4th order and can also be ignored. Finally, we set the world-volume field strength to zero, since we do not consider vector degrees of freedom.

Electric D3-brane Couplings
As we discussed in section 2.3 above, because of the 10D self-duality ofF 5 , a D3-brane can act as either an electric or magnetic source for C 4 . In this section, we consider the "electric" choice as defined above, namely, the choice to keep components ofF 5 with legs mostly along the external spacetime. With this choice, a D3-brane has an electric coupling to C 4 through the WZ terms in its action. We begin by first presenting our ansatz for fluctuations in the D3-brane position. As discussed in the introduction, an ansatz for dimensional reduction must satisfy the constraint equations arising from the 10D EOM (2.5, 2.11, 2.14). We will show how our ansatz -which involves the presence of D3-brane degrees of freedom not only as transverse coordinates but also in the metric and 4-form gauge potential -solves these constraint equations and is thus the first known consistent ansatz for the dimensional reduction of transverse D3-brane degrees of freedom. In order to compute the full effective action of the D3-brane, we need to understand how it couples to the massless moduli, such as the volume modulus and C 4 axions. Dimensional reduction of the volume modulus and axions in GKP compactifications has been studied previously in [24,25]; however, those articles worked with the other (magnetic) choice for components ofF 5 , which leads to a slightly different ansatz for the linearized fluctuations. Thus, we briefly discuss the electric form of linearized fluctuations of these moduli. We will then see that these moduli can all be described by a common "electric" ansatz, which we use to carry out the dimensional reduction of the action to a 4D effective theory.

D3-brane Fluctuations in Electric Formalism
As discussed in section 2.2, we will consider a D3-brane with embedding coordinates X / M = X / µ , Y / m with world volume parameterization in static gauge ξ a = δ a / µ X / µ (so that fluctuations in X / µ are gauged away) and take small, slowly varying fluctuations of the transverse As discussed in the introduction, diffeomorphisms and the constraint equations couple the D3-brane with the metric and 4-form C 4 , forcing us to go beyond the probe limit for the D3-brane. Thus, fluctuations of the D3-brane transverse position appear in the metric at linear order through the ansatz which uses the same structure as [24,25] for the volume modulus and axions. This is similar to the background (2.2); the additions are spacetime-dependence in the warp factor A(x, y), a "compensator" term containing a 1-form B Y m (x, y) needed to solve the constraints (and which vanishes for spacetime-independent fluctuations), and a Weyl factor Ω(x) defined by The Weyl factor is required to diagonalize the 4D graviton and warped volume fluctuations. We work in a diffeomorphism gauge in which the CY metricg mn is fixed to its background form.
Fluctuations of the D3-brane position also appear in the electric components of the 4-form potential C 4 through the Weyl factor, warp factor, and compensator with corresponding 5-form The terms of (3.4) in square brackets are required in the 10D description of the field strength for self-duality (these are the magnetic components ofF 5 ). The constraints follow from inserting our ansatz (3.1,3.2,3.3,3.4) into the 10D EOM (2.5), (2.11), and (2.14). We will see that the constraints have specific solutions for A(x, y), B Y m (x, y), and Ω(x). First, consider the constraints coming from the non-dynamical terms in the Einstein equations (see appendix C.1). In particular, the (µν) component yields as well as∇ñ The first of these, (3.5), promotes the background Poisson equation for the warp factor (2.3) to include first-order contributions from the D3-brane "instantaneously" (i.e., separately at each point x µ in spacetime): where the · · · represent the other contributions to the warp factor due to fluxes and other localized sources (which are smooth at Y ) andG(y, Y ) is the biscalar Green's function on the internal CY. 7 In this sense, our diffeomorphism gauge choice is analogous to the Coulomb gauge describing electromagnetic radiation. Equation (3.7) also shows that the Weyl factor Ω(x) is independent of the D3-brane moduli at linear order, since via the relation (B.10) between scalar and tensor Green's functions. Nevertheless, we will keep the Weyl factor in our calculations since it is important for defining the 4D Einstein frame. Next, the mixed component of the Einstein equation gives a non-trivial constraint as well as a copy of (3.5) multiplied by The compensator is given by the bivector Green's function The Green's function identity (B.10) implies that B Y 1 automatically satisfies (3.6). The EOM for the 5-form flux (2.11), evaluated for this ansatz in (C.20) in detail, also contributes a constraint equation. The source term for (2.11) in static gauge is 12) and the constraints are another copy of (3.5) and Equation (3.13) is the 6-dimensional dual of (3.9) and is thus automatically satisfied. The D3-brane EOM (2.14) contributes no new constraints; the / M = / µ component vanishes identically (see (C.23)) as in the background, while the / M = / m component (shown below in (3.30)) contributes to the dynamical EOM only.

Summary
We have shown that the ansatz (3.1,3.2,3.3,3.4) solves the constraints required to describe the motion of a D3-brane in a GKP background beyond the probe limit. To first order in the fluctuation of the brane position, the warp factor, metric andF 5 compensator, and Weyl factor are (repeating our earlier results) To our knowledge, this is the first ansatz in the literature that describes the backreaction of the D3-brane on the field strength and geometry and can be used to perform a consistent dimensional reduction.

Kähler Moduli in Electric Components
Having found an ansatz for the SUGRA fields for a moving D3-brane that solves all constraints, we can determine the dynamical EOM and dimensionally reduce the quadratic action (2.4). However, the full structure of the effective action is apparent only when we include the complete moduli space. In this paper, we consider the universal volume modulus c, 2-form axions b I 2 descending from C 4 , and brane positions Y / m . Each of the axions is associated with a harmonic 2-form ω I 2 on the unwarped CY manifold (where I = 1, · · · h 1,1 runs over a basis). In principle, the holomorphic moduli of the 4D SUGRA should include all the metric Kähler moduli as partners of the b I 2 ; so far, the constraints have only been solved for the volume modulus. Some compactifications have additional axionic moduli that descend from A 2 . Solutions to the constraints have been presented in [25], and they can be added to our analysis in a straightforward manner.
Here we present a brief description of the linearized fluctuations corresponding to all these moduli and the constraint equations they must solve; more details are presented in appendix C.1.
These moduli can all be described to linear order by a common metric and electric C 4 components 8 The total compensator field is written as the sum from each moduli sector, sô Note that we have used a notational shorthand sinced 2 B 1 = 0 (that is,dB 1 is not actually an exterior derivative in spacetime) except when the axions are on shell. It is worth noting that there is a gauge in which the volume modulus compensator field, K(y), appears in the (µν) component of the metric; however, this is not possible for the other moduli, since perturbations of b I 2 and Y / m directly source T µm . The C 4 axions in the presence of background 3 flux also source a compensator for the 2-form potential The field strengths for our ansatz arẽ As in the previous subsection, the terms in square brackets on the second line of (3.19) are the magnetic components dual to the electric components on the first line; the magnetic components subsume the Chern-Simons terms (ig s /2)(δA 2Ḡ 3 ). This form forF 5 differs from the form presented in [24,25] by terms proportional to the 4D dynamical EOM e 4Ω e 4Adˆ d B 1 +e −4Aˆ dˆ d˜ B 1 . Therefore, both versions of the field strength represent the same on-shell degrees of freedom with slightly different 4D field definitions, and the constraints for the volume modulus and axions remain unchanged. We summarize them below.
The constraints arising from the external components of the Einstein equation are, as above,∇ Since the axions do not appear as sources for the warp factor in (3.21), the warp and Weyl factors are independent of these degrees of freedom. However, the volume modulus appears as a spacetime-dependent shift of the warp factor [24] The Weyl factor is e −2Ω = e −2Ω (0) + c(x) including the volume modulus. In addition to (3.6), (3.22) gives a Poisson equation for the volume modulus compensator and∇ñB b,I n = 0. The mixed component of E M N gives a nontrivial constraint for all of the degrees of freedom, namely as well as a copy of equation (3.21) multiplied by ∂ µ B m . We have already seen how this equation is satisfied for fluctuations in D3-brane position; for the volume modulus, we note that ∂ µ ∂ m e −4A = 0 and that its compensator is exact, so the constraint is automatically satisfied. For the 2-form axions, (3.25) becomes which we take to be the defining Poisson equation for the axion compensators, as in [25]. The constraints coming from the 5-form EOM (C.20) again include a copy of (3.21), as well as˜ of (3.25). For the axions, we can further rewrite this constraint as which implies that where γ I 4 is harmonic and K 3 is given by a Poisson-like equation (whose precise form will be unimportant to us).
Finally, the constraint from the 3-form EOM (2.13) as given in (C.21) receives no contribution from the volume or D3 position moduli. For the axions, it is The contribution Λ I 1 for each axion takes the same form as in [25].

Summary
We have shown that a generic "electric" ansatz, given by (3.15,3.16,3.17,3.19), can be used to describe the volume modulus, C 4 axions, and D3-brane position. The warp factor, Weyl factor, and compensators for each modulus can be determined by (3.23,3.24,3.26,3.29)along with corresponding expressions from section 3.1 -and are shown to satisfy all of the 10D constraint equations. It is important to note that the constraints require fluctuations in multiple 10D fields for each of moduli separately.

4D Effective Action in Electric Formalism
As discussed in section 2.2, the quadratic effective action is obtained by multiplying the fluctuations of the 10D fields with the first-order parts of the 10D dynamical EOM; in this case, there is an additional contribution to the quadratic action described below that takes a topological form and does not appear in the EOM. Integration over the compact manifold projects onto the massless sector.

Contributions to Effective Action
As described above, the quadratic action is given by where δg M N , δC 4 , δA 2 are the first-order parts of (3.15,3.16,3.18). However, as noted in section 2.2, there can generally be "topological" terms in the quadratic action, such as the instanton density of 4D Yang-Mills theory, that do not appear in the linearized EOM. We identify a contribution of this type below. We begin with the contribution from the D3-brane sector. The dynamical part of the D3-brane EOM is Note that the contribution to the EOM from the WZ action has cancelled with a term proportional to g µm in the DBI action in the first line of (3.30). We obtain the contribution There is no "self-energy" problem; the singular fields sourced by the D3-brane cancel out of the effective action. Previous attempts at constructing the effective action for D3-branes (such as [15,26]) have only included this contribution from the DBI action on a fixed warped background. However, as we have emphasized, there are, in principle, additional contributions to the effective action arising from the presence of moduli dependence in the metric and flux sectors. For example, the dynamical Einstein equations, given in (C.17,C.18,C.19), are Inserting these into the expression for the gravity contribution to the effective action, we obtain Next, we need to include the contribution to the effective action from the flux sectors. The relevant 9 dynamic contributions to the 5-form EOM are (3.36) The 5-form contribution to the effective action is then IJ using the normalization of our basis forms. Following [25], which is the identity when the CY metric is formal, meaning that the wedge product of harmonic forms is always harmonic. Meanwhile, the 3-form sector does not contribute to the quadratic action 10 because none of the components of δE 8 have the correct legs to wedge nontrivially with δA 2 . Finally, there is an additional contribution to the effective action that is not captured by equation (2.4). Specifically, the WZ action (2.9) contains a term that is quadratic in field fluctautions but does not give a contribution to the linearized EOM: 11 There is an additional term of the form e −4A˜ d∂2 B1, but it contributes only to higher-derivative terms.
We expect these to be modified by other corrections, such as threshold corrections. They are also ambiguous because they change under field redefinitions of the form u → u + f (u)∂ 2 u. For both these reasons, we do not consider them. 10 Except at higher derivatives, which we ignore for the reasons stated in footnote 9. 11 The extra factor of 1/2 in (3.39) compared to the WZ form (2.9) follows from careful comparison of combinatorial factors in a general 4-form versus a 2-form wedged with two 1-forms.
This is analogous to the axion-photon coupling θF 2 , which contributes to the EOM only at quadratic order in the fields but can nonetheless contribute to the action at quadratic order in fluctuations if θ has a background value. In infinite Minkowski space, a constant background b 2 is gauge trivial, but there are nontrivial Wilson lines if the spatial dimensions are compactified on a large torus, for example, so we must include this term. The terms in the action with background b 2 are topological in the sense that they are total derivatives, also like the axion-photon coupling. Adding all the contributions yields a series of cancellations. Specifically, all terms proportional to ∂˜ A∂ 2 B cancel. Then the constraint equation for the compensator (3.22) allows us to simplify the remaining terms involving δA, δΩ to the form , the brane-volume cross-term integrates to zero. With the definition of the Weyl factor, the remaining terms combine, yielding This is the key result of this section: all of the complicated structures from the ansatz, including compensators and Green's functions, end up cancelling non-trivially in the final effective action. This remarkable set of cancellations illustrates the necessity for a consistent solution of the 10D constraint equations; the constraints, and their solutions, are essential for simplifying the effective action. Note that the only contribution to the effective action by the warp factor is through the axion field space metric (3.38), as was determined in [25].

Scalar Axions and Kinetic Action
Since the 4D effective theory is a supergravity, ultimately the quantity of interest is the Kähler potential, so we should write the kinetic action in terms of holomorphic scalar coordinates.
Here, we dualize the 2-form axions into scalars and find that using complex coordinates y m = (z i ,zī) on the CY provides some simpification. The CY coordinates appear explicitly in the action (3.41) through the brane positions in the combinationsg / m/ n ∂μY / m ∂ µ Y / n and ω I / m/ nd Y / md Y / n . The first is trivially re-written in complex coordinates as 2g i ∂μZ i ∂ µZ (for legibility, we drop the slash on quantities evaluated at the brane position in complex coordinates). However, we can re-organize the second further; by the ∂∂ lemma, the harmonic 2-forms are locally ω I 2 = i∂∂k I (z,z) in terms of potentials k I (when ω 2 is the complex structure formJ 2 , k is the Kähler potential of the CY), and Furthermore, since k is evaluated at the brane position, we havedk Ī  = ∂ i k Ī d Z i + ∂īk Ī d Z; since partial derivatives commute,dk Ī dZ = ∂ i k Ī d Z idZ . Now the kinetic action for the axions can be written as where we have defined κ I 1 ≡ k I jd Z j − k Ī d Z and γ = 2κ 2 10 T 3 /3Ṽ . To define the scalar axion, we re-write the action (3.43) in terms of the field strength h I 3 ≡db I 2 and enforce the Bianchi identitydh I 3 = 0 by introducing a Lagrange multiplier b I 0 , so The classical EOM implies Substituting this into (3.44) and simplifying gives the action in terms of the scalar axions as With the brane coordinates written in terms of complex variables and the axions dualized to the conventional scalars, the effective action (3.41) becomes This effective action for the volume modulus, C 4 axions, and D3-brane positions is the primary result of this paper. Compared to the action found in [1], which does not account for the effects of the warp factor or flux in kinetic terms, our result is similar, but we find that a nontrivial warp factor and flux appear through the Weyl factor (which corresponds to shifting the expectation value of the volume modulus) and the metric C IJ , as in [24,25]. In fact, our result nearly matches that derived in [18] using methods from 4D conformal SUGRA; the only difference is the contribution from the flux background to C IJ , which already appeared in [25]. It is unclear if this contribution must vanish identically or if perhaps conformal SUGRA approaches are blind to the background flux.
In the case that the CY metricg mn is formal or that we restrict to the universal axion (ω 2 =J 2 , the almost complex structure), C IJ = e 2Ω δ IJ . With a single axion b, then the effective action (3.47) follows from the Kähler potential and holomorphic coordinate as we show in appendix D. This takes the form proposed in [7,15] for D3-branes in warped compactifications when restricted to a single Kähler modulus.

Summary
Starting with the ansatz of the previous subsection for the 10D SUGRA fields, we have performed a consistent dimensional reduction beyond the probe limit of the effective action of a mobile D3-brane, the volume modulus, and 4-form axions in a warped GKP background. A number of critical cancellations occur because the 10D fields satisfy their constraint equations. The effective action is where the flux and warp factor appear through the metric There is no known explicit form for the corresponding Kähler potential, though it reduces to the DeWolfe-Giddings [7,15] form when the CY has only a single Kähler modulus.

Magnetic D3-brane Couplings
We can also carry out the dimensional reduction in the version of type IIB SUGRA in which we keep the mostly internal components ofF 5 . In this version of the theory, a D3-brane does not couple to C 4 in the action, 12 but rather through a nontrivial Bianchi identity. To describe the SUGRA in this way will require a new, but equivalent, expression for the field strength ansatz which differs from (3.4) by terms that are proportional to equations of motion. Since it is identical on shell, this ansatz describes the same 4D degrees of freedom as (3.4); off shell, the 4D effective action will differ only in higher-derivative terms, which are ambiguous as they can be changed by a 4D field redefinition. We start this section by demonstrating that the new ansatz satisfies the same constraints as required in the electric description of the D3-brane. At the same time, we will notice that the fluctuation inF 5 decomposes into an exact term (the contribution of a globally-defined 4-form potential) and a delta-function supported term with an explicit dependence on the brane position. This motivates us to divideF 5 in the presence of magnetic charges into an exact piece and terms that depend explicitly on brane position; the field redefinition yields a 4-form potential without a Dirac string singularity, much as a field redefinition can be used to create a 4-form potential that is invariant under 2-form gauge transformations needed to describe a background 3-form field strength. We discuss this field redefinition in section 4.2.
A puzzle that arises when treating the D3-brane as a magnetic charge is how the no-force condition in our background arises, since there is no WZ coupling between the brane and C 4 . As it turns out, the field redefinition described above solves this puzzle, since the explicit dependence ofF 5 on the brane position modifies the D3-brane EOM. In section 4.2.3, we find the modified equation of motion for the brane and demonstrate that a static D3-brane feels no force in backgrounds that are mutually BPS with the brane (including GKP backgrounds).
Finally, after reviewing the results of [24,25] in a "magnetic" description, we present a unified ansatz for the volume modulus, C 4 axions, and brane position at linear order. Using this ansatz, we solve the constraints and integrate the quadratic action over the internal manifold to find the 4D effective action for all moduli.

D3-brane Fluctuations in Magnetic Formalism
Clearly, to represent the same 4D degree of freedom, the self-dualF 5 must be the same on shell whether we choose to describe IIB SUGRA using the electric or magnetic components. However, the magnetic components ofF 5 in the ansatz (3.4) (which we used for the electrically-coupled D3-brane) are not easily described in terms of a 4-form potential with the magnetic set of components. Fortunately, it is possible to describe the same on-shell solution of the 10D theory by adding terms proportional to the 4D dynamical EOM toF 5 ; some of these combine with other magnetic components to take the form dC 4 , as we will see below. Specifically, we takẽ whereF elec 5 is given by (3.4). In the second line, the first two terms are the magnetic components ofF mag 5 , while the terms in brackets are the electric components. Throughout the remainder of this section, we consider onlyF mag 5 , and therefore we suppress the superscript. Our ansatz for the metric remains the same.
Since it differs from the ansatz in the electric formalism only by terms that are second order in spacetime derivatives, this modified ansatz forF 5 leaves the constraint equations unchanged, so it is still a valid ansatz for dimensional reduction. The additional terms in (4.1) lead to higher-derivative terms in the dynamical EOM, which in fact vanish on shell and do not affect our analysis. We verify that the constraints are unchanged by explicit calculation in appendix C.2.
We can now address our claim that the magnetic components of this ansatz are simply written in terms of a 4-form potential. The key is the constraint (3.13), which can be written as˜ As a result, the fluctuation in the magnetic components is In other words, δF 5 = dδC 4 + S 5 , where C 4 is a globally-defined potential (ie, has no Dirac string singularity and can therefore be defined with a single gauge patch) and S 5 is the explicit dependence on the brane position required to solve the Bianchi identity. This is a (non-local) field redefinition of the potential which apparently gives the 5-form an explicit dependence on the brane position. We will explore this field redefinition in more detail in the following subsection, including an analogy to the well-known Chern-Simons terms involving A 2 and G 3 inF 5 .

Summary
The ansatz for 10D fields is somewhat modified in order to write the magnetic components ofF 5 in terms of a 4-form potential. The metric and 5-form are given by where the magnetic components are the first two terms. We have found that the magnetic components of the field strength can be written asF 5 = S 5 + dC 4 , where S 5 contains explicit dependence on the brane position and is described by a potential with a Dirac string singularity. The redefined potential C 4 is globally defined and has fluctuation δC 4 = −e 2Ω˜ d B Y 1 . This ansatz satisfies the same constraints as the ansatz we proposed in the electric formalism. Therefore, we still have e 2Ω = e 2Ω

Non-Trivial Bianchi Identities, Field Redefintions, and EOM
We recall from equation (2.12) that the Bianchi identity for the magnetic components ofF 5 is which has both distributed (G 3 ) and local sources. The meaning of the distributed sources is well-understood -the gauge-invariant field strength contains both an exact term and Chern-Simons terms involving both the potential and field strength for another SUGRA degree of freedom. As a result, the 4-form potential C 4 (even at first order in perturbations) has a nontrivial gauge patching in a background G 3 ; [20,24,25] demonstrated that this gauge transformation can be removed from perturbations of C 4 by a simple field redefinition, so the perturbation inF 5 decomposes into an exact term and a (somewhat altered) Chern-Simons term.
Similarly, the presence of a local magnetic source implies that C 4 must be defined on at least two patches glued together with a nontrivial gauge transformation (to remove the Dirac-string-like singularity). We show here that, as in the case of distributed sources, there is a field redefinition of the potential that allows the perturbation in the field strength to be written as dC 4 plus an analog of Chern-Simons terms with delta-function support. Our approach is to make a formal expansion of the source terms around an arbitrary fixed point; the nontrivial gauge patching can then be relegated to a background potential that creates the zeroth order term in the expansion, while the spacetime-dependent terms in the field strength are separated into an explicit dependence on the brane position and the exterior derivative of an exact potential. This explicit dependence of the field strength on the D3-brane position in turn modifies the EOM for the brane's motion. These techniques are illustrated for magnetic monopoles in 4D Maxwell theory in an upcoming companion paper by two of us [27].
The key point in both cases is two-fold: the original C 4 is not suitable for dimensional reduction because it is not globally defined (and cannot be integrated over the CY in the usual way, for example) and is not an entirely independent degree of freedom because its nontrivial gauge patching depends on the values of other fields. The field redefinitions we discuss below resolve both of these difficulties.
We begin with a brief review of the field redefinition in the case of a background G 3 , largely following [25]. We then demonstrate how to re-writeF 5 with explicit dependence on the brane position in a generic background, working in static gauge. The cases of distributed and local magnetic sources are independent, so we discuss them separately. We close with a discussion of the modified D3-brane EOM in section 4.2.3.

Field Redefinition in Background 3-Form
Ignoring local sources, the 5-form Bianchi identity can be written as dF 5 13 This, of course, leads to the well-known expressioñ with Chern-Simons terms acounting for the nontrivial Bianchi identity. The appearance of the 2-form potentials requires C 4 to vary nontrivially under gauge transformations of A 2 . This is the usual definition of the 4-form potential in IIB SUGRA (one of the two common definitions, to be precise).
However, if G 3 has a harmonic background value G 3 (as in GKP compactifications), A 2 is defined only on coordinate patches, so C 4 , including its fluctuation, must also be defined only in patches. Defining G 3 = G (0) 3 + δG 3 with δG 3 = dδA 2 exact, we have This suggests writing It is important to note, however, that δC 4 is not the fluctuation of C 4 as defined above but is shifted from that fluctuation by a wedge product of δA 2 and the patched 2-form potential that describes the background G 3 . It is clear from (4.7) that δC 4 is a globally-defined form; [20,24,25] demonstrated this fact using the explicit field redefinition and the gauge transformations of the SUGRA fields.
Using the variables δC 4 , δA 2 , δĀ 2 rather than δC 4 , δA 2 , δĀ 2 serves two purposes: it removes the background gauge transformations from the first-order potential and clarifies the dependence of δF 5 on δA 2 , δĀ 2 . Since δC 4 is globally-defined, it is the appropriate variable to describe fluctuations in moduli (such as 4-form axions) or compensators. However, because the explicit dependence of δF 5 on δA 2 changes, the field redefinition from δC 4 to δC 4 also modifies the 10D EOM for δA 2 compared to the usual result from the SUGRA (while leaving the 4-form EOM unchanged). As can be determined either by direct variation (at linear order) or by plugging the explicit field redefinition into (2.4), the change to the linearized form of (2.13) is to ensure that A 2 in the last term of that equation is the globally defined δA 2 (which may have a background value). Henceforth, we will use this modified potential and correspondingly modified EOM.

Field Redefinition for D3-brane Source
We can take a parallel approach for dynamical local sources; considering only a single D3brane, the Bianchi identity (2.12) is which we evaluate in the static gauge ∂ a X µ = δ µ a . With this gauge choice, the integral reduces to following from the definition (2.10). Remarkably, all factors of the metric cancel on both sides of (4.9), so we can take ⊥ and δ 6 ⊥ to depend on an arbitrary 6D metric g ⊥,mn on the y m . For now we will leave this metric arbitrary, making an advantageous choice later. Because we can use an arbitrary 6D metric, our procedure does not rely on factorizability of the 10D metric. Note that explicit factors of parallel propagators contractingdY have been suppressed since they become Kronecker deltas at coincidence (as enforced by the delta function). Notationally, we continue to defined = ∂ µ dx µ ,d = ∂ m dy m rather than introduce d , d ⊥ .
Our approach, as when considering a fluctuating 3-form source in 4.2.1 above, is to demonstrate that terms containing spacetime derivatives of the brane position are exact. ThenF 5 can be written as the exterior derivative of a (redefined) potential plus delta-functionsupported terms making explicit the entire dependence ofF 5 on the brane position Y (x). To separate out the the dynamics of the brane position, we formally expand the right-hand side of (4.9) around a fixed arbitrary point Y m * ; note that this is not necessarily the background value of the D3-brane position. The proper expansion quantity is Synge's worldfunction σ(Y * , Y ) (half the square geodesic distance between Y m * and Y / m ). 14 The derivatives σ m ≡ ∂ m σ(Y * , Y ) lie tangent to the geodesic from Y / m to Y m * in T M * Y * as illustrated in figure 2. By taking further partial derivatives, we can see that Λ m / m ∂ µ Y / m = −Λ m m ∂ µ σ m , so we can replacedY 1 → −dσ 1 in equation (4.9) above.
In carrying out this formal expansion, we note that Order by order in σ, then, we find Using (B.5), and the fact that σ m is function of Y * , Y and not the position y whereF 5 is evaluated, we can rewrite We immediately see that the second and third terms of (4.11) combine into a total derivative −d( ⊥ σ 1 δ 6 ⊥ (y, Y * )). We wish to write the second order terms also as 10D total derivatives. We start by noting that similarly and also (4.14) The remaining term in (4.11) can be re-written in two ways; the first is given by the simple differentiation While the left-hand side of (4.15) looks like the complement to (4.13) that we desire, it enters (4.11) with an incorrect coefficient, and the third term of (4.15) is not a derivative. As it turns out, the complement of (4.14) is where we have remembered to differentiate the parallel propagators Λ m m in the definition of σ 1 . All told, (4.17) so, to second order in the formal expansion, While we do not carry out this calculation to higher order, we conjecture that all terms in the Bianchi identity at first or higher order in the formal σ expansion can be organized into total derivatives, as we have shown at first and second order. It is important to note that the source terms are actually independent of Y * when all orders of the expansion are included, since they are simply a way of re-writing a function of Y (x). Since the source for the Bianchi identity is a static delta function plus a series of total derivatives according to our conjecture,F 5 can be written in terms of a patched-together potential for a static magnetic monopole located at Y * , a globally-defined potential, and additional terms that translate the Dirac string from Y m * to Y / m as Note that the static monopole potential S * 4 satisfies d 2 S * 4 = 2κ 2 10 T 3 ⊥ δ 6 ⊥ (y, Y * ), which is allowed since it is not globally defined and is singular at y = Y * . Of course,F 5 and all physically meaningful quantities must be independent of the arbitrarily chosen Y * , so the equation ∂F 5 /∂Y m * = 0 will result in a system of relations among different orders of the expansion similar to renormalization group flow.
We emphasize that (4.19) is not our ansatz for D3-brane motion. Rather, any 5-form field strength with a monopole source can be written in this form, as we have done for our ansatz in (4.3). Specifically, δF 5 in that expression is the first order term ofF 5 in the fluctuation of the brane position; to make contact with that expression, we should take Y * to be the fixed background brane position, Y the actual brane position including fluctuations, and g ⊥,mn =g mn . Then dS * 4 + dC 4 is the background 5-form, and σ 1 → −Ỹ 1 . Then (4.19) is identically (4.3) to first order.
Just as in section 4.2.1, the field redefinition from C 4 → C 4 serves a dual purpose. First, it is clear that d 2 C 4 = 0, so, unlike the original 4-form, the redefined potential is now globally defined and is suitable for dimensional reduction. Therefore, the C 4 compensators and axion moduli appear in the redefined C 4 . Further, the field redefinition cleanly separatesF 5 into a contribution from the independent 4-form potential C 4 and an explicit contribution from the D3-brane degrees of freedom (which is required by the Bianchi identity). As for other moduli, the explicit dependence of the field strength on Y (x) must be supplemented by the appearance of compensators, which are necessary to satisfy the constraints. In addition, sincẽ F 5 explicitly depends on the brane position when written in terms of C 4 , the D3-brane EOM is not simply given by the DBI and WZ actions, as we discuss below.

The Brane EOM in the Magnetic Picture
As we have noted previously, in the magnetic version of IIB SUGRA, D3-branes couple tõ F 5 only through the nontrivial Bianchi identity; there is no WZ coupling between C 4 and a static D3-brane. This naively presents a puzzle, since the brane is mutually BPS with a GKP background (or the background of other static D3-branes) and should therefore feel no force. The DBI action provides a gravitational force, but there is apparently no counter-balancing force from the 5-form, unlike in the electric formulation of the theory! The resolution of the puzzle lies in the redefinition ofF 5 in (4.19). While the redefinition leaves theF 5 EOM E 6 unchanged because C 4 entersF 5 in the same way as C 4 does, the new explicit dependence ofF 5 on the brane position Y / m through σ m (Y * , Y ) modifies the D3-brane's EOM, just as the SUGRA Chern-Simons terms inF 5 contribute to the EOM for A 2 . We show here that the delta-function-supported terms in equation (4.19) introduce two new contributions to the brane EOM: a force, which resolves the puzzle described above, and terms proportional to the 5-form EOM E 6 , which vanish on shell but will contribute to off-shell quantities including the effective action.
In the magnetic description, the D3-brane position degrees of freedom appear in the DBI action (2.7) and theF 5 kinetic terms, which are where the subscript mag indicates that the sum is over only the magnetic components ofF 5 (which are defined with indices lowered). Note that the indices are raised with the full 10D metric g M N . In the static gauge, the pullback of the metric is the EOM for γ µν also enforce γ µν = P (g) µν , but we impose that constraint only after varying S with respect to Y / m . The DBI part of the action, as previously, contributes terms equal to the EOM (2.14) with C / M / N / P / Q = 0 and all indices X / M restricted to Y / m in static gauge.
We now determine the variation of the 5-form kinetic action with respect to the brane position. To first order in the σ expansion, For the most part, the EOM can be evaluated using the typical Euler-Lagrange formula. However, the contribution from the second term of (4.22) deserves special consideration. In the variation of the action, we can integrate by parts to remove the derivative from the delta function: where ∇ ⊥ is the covariant derivative compatible with the as yet arbitrary metric g ⊥,mn . With the antisymmetrization of the s, m indices, the derivative appears to bed ⊥F5 ; however, the presence of the 10D metric requires a more delicate interpretation. As we expect that the brane EOM will contain terms proportional to theF 5 EOM, we are motivated to re-write where γ is the 4D Hodge star for the induced metric; this combination is ultimately independent of γ µν . 15 Note that only certain components ofF appear in ( γd F ) ts . Similarly, the ∂ µ (∂L/∂(∂ µ Y )) term of the Euler-Lagrange equation contains (with a slight abuse of notation). These terms in fact add together to give a contribution proportional to the EOM E 6 . All told, the variation of the action with respect to the brane position (in static gauge) is We need to make several comments. First, we have worked only to the first subleading order in the formal σ expansion. It is reasonable to conjecture that the sole effect of the higher order terms in σ is to replace δ 6 ⊥ (y, Y * ) → δ 6 ⊥ (y, Y ) and perhaps to add new contributions to the EOM which do not contribute at first order in the D3-brane velocity (like the last term of (4.28)). We will primarily assume that this is the case in our discussion of the dimensionally reduced action below but also comment on the possibility that the conjecture is false. Next, we note the appearance of several different metrics in (4.28) including the (as yet) arbitrary metric g ⊥,mn . As we mentioned above, this formalism has allowed us to include geometries in which g M N does not factorize into 4D and 6D metrics. Finally, we recall from equations (2.4,2.14) our convention that the EOM should be defined as (in static gauge) Some of the terms in (4.28) manifestly take this form, but others do not. However, consider that for any function f (x, y, Y ). Furthermore, we have the identities Therefore, we can re-write (4.28) as the EOM Note that the final result depends only on the 10D metric and the induced metric on the worldvolume, not the arbitrary metric g ⊥,mn ; this is physically necessary but occurs through nontrivial cancellations. The field redefinition C 4 → C 4 which showed the explicit dependence ofF 5 on Y / m has introduced several new terms in the D3-brane EOM. The last two terms represent the "electromagnetic Lorentz" force ofF 5 on the brane and, at least to the order we have calculated in σ, they are independent of the arbitrary reference point Y * , as any physical quantity should be. Higher orders in the σ expansion can contribute terms with higher powers of ∂ µ Y / m as necessary for the 5-form version of the Lorentz force. The remaining term, proportional to E 6 = d F 5 , is somewhat more puzzling because it contains σ n . This term vanishes on shell, so it does not affect the physically meaningful brane EOM, but it does contribute to the (off-shell) quadratic action that we wish to calculate. We will discuss this contribution in more detail when we calculate the quadratic action below. For now, we simply note that we can replace ( γ E 6 ) n / m Λ n n σ n = ( γ E 6 ) / m/ n σ / n using properties of the Synge world function (see appendix B).
We can now return to the puzzle we raised earlier -how does a static magneticallycharged brane feel a BPS-like no-force condition even though it has no direct coupling to the 5-form? We have recognized that the nontrivial Bianchi identity forF 5 modifies the D3-brane EOM as above. Consider a D3-brane in the background (2.2) at a constant position Y / m . In this case, γ µν = g µν = e 2Aη µν . Then the brane EOM becomes In other words, the new contributions to the brane EOM due to theF 5 field redefinition precisely restore the no-force condition for the brane.
It is also worth discussing the relationship of (4.31) to the D3-brane EOM in the electric formalism as given in (2.14). In static gauge, 16 this is where the · · · include higher powers of ∂ µ Y / m , which we did not calculate in the magnetic framework. The first terms, which involve the metric and its derivatives, are manifestly identical in the electric and magnetic formalisms, so we are left to compare the terms involving the potential/flux. With some rearrangement, the first term combines with the first term of the third line of (4.33) to give −( γF5 ) / m in terms of the electric components. We add the remainder to the other terms from (4.33) and find after remembering the no-torsion condition for derivatives of scalars. As when deriving the D3-brane EOM originally, we have assumed that the 2-form potentials and 3-form fluxes do not contribute to the electric components ofF 5 . Now we see that the D3-brane EOM in the electric and magnetic formalisms are equivalent (at least the terms we consider) if which is simply the relation of the electric and magnetic components of the fieldstrength to each other.

Summary
In the presence of a nontrivial Bianchi identity, the potential C 4 as usually defined contains both an independent degree of freedom in the 10D SUGRA (which contributes both to the 4-form axions and compensators of other moduli in dimensional reduction) and also a direct dependence on the D3-brane position. This potential carries a Dirac string singularity which moves with the brane (alternately described as gauge patching); because of the non-standard periodicity conditions, C 4 is not appropriate to describe moduli or compensators in dimensional reduction, and it also does not accurately reflect the contribution of the brane position to the action.
As we describe in section 4.2.1, this situation is similar to the case of background 3-form flux; we reviewed a field transformation previously described by [20,24,25] to a globally defined 4-form C 4 which also makes explicit the dependence ofF 5 on fluctuations in A 2 . We then found that it is similarly possible to writeF 5 in the presence of a D3-brane monopole as in terms of a new potential C 4 , which is globally defined and an independent degree of freedom. The explicit dependence ofF 5 on the brane position contributes to the brane EOM, as derived in (4.28). The modified EOM satisfies the no-force condition on a static D3-brane in a GKP background, which would otherwise be a mystery due to the lack of a WZ coupling to the magnetic 4-form.

4D Effective Action in Magnetic Formalism
In this section, we calculate the 4D effective action in the magnetic formulation of the SUGRA. We begin by reviewing the ansätze for the D3-brane positions, volume modulus, and axions, and then we compute the quadratic action and integrate over the internal manifold. Appendix C.2 contains details of the calculation.

Kähler Moduli in Magnetic Components
The 10D ansätze (and solutions to the constraints) for the volume modulus and C 4 axions in terms of the magnetic components ofF 5 were presented in [24,25]. We review those results here in concert with the ansatz for D3-brane motion as given in section 4.1.
All these moduli are described by the same metric ansatz (3.15) as in the electric formulation, including a compensator field The 4-form perturbation is note that the volume modulus does not appear in the magnetic components of C 4 , even through its compensator. There is an additional compensator for the axions in the 2-form potential, δA 2 = −db I 0 (x)Λ I 1 (y), which is nontrivial only in the presence of a background 3-form flux. Altogether, the field strengths arẽ 3 +db I 0 ∧dΛ I 1 . (4.40) The field strengthF 5 is not the background plus dδC 4 becauseF 5 includes extra terms as in (4.7,4.19). The compensators and warp factor are given by equations (3.23,3.24,3.11), as in the electric formulation, along with for the axions. The new form γ I 2 in (4.39,4.41) is harmonic (with the CY metricg mn ) satisfying The matrix C IJ is defined as in (3.38); see [25] for more details of the axion degrees of freedom. The final constraint can be written conveniently as for the total compensator (4.37) including the variations due to all the moduli; the compensator B I 1 for the axions is divergenceless.

Effective Action
The contribution to the quadratic action from the Einstein equations is only through the (mn) component. By contracting the first-order parts of we arrive at after integration by parts and use of (4.43). Note that δe −2Ω = c(x), the volume modulus. The first term of (4.46) is proportional to because the brane motion does not change the warped volume per (3.8). Therefore, (4.48) Next, we examine the contribution from the 5-form EOM. The first-order parts of E 6 include the dynamical EOM for the axion as well as a contribution from the compensator for all moduli: As in (2.4), we wedge this with δC 4 from (4.38) (which is globally defined and represents an independent 10D degree of freedom). After integration by parts and some cancellation, we see that We can simplify this further using the 2-form inner product and the constraint (3.13) to find The linearized 3-form EOM δE 8 is non-trivial but does not contribute to the quadratic action since δA 2 has the wrong legs to give a non-vanishing wedge product with it.
Finally, the contribution to the action from the brane sector is determined by contracting the dynamical part of the brane EOM with the fluctuation in brane position. As there is no WZ term, there is no cancellation between terms involving g µm and C 4 . Instead, given that the induced metric is g µν to linear order, the linearized EOM is Therefore, the quadratic action as in (2.4) is The second term will cancel with a similar term in S 5 ef f (4.51). As in section 3.3.2, we havẽ g / m/ n ∂ µ Y / m ∂μY / n = 2g i ∂ µ Z i ∂μZ; here and in the following we drop slashes on complex indices for legibility whenever the context is clear.
We are now forced to confront the terms that depend explicitly on the arbitrary reference point through the appearance of σ / n . We begin with the term proportional to the harmonic (1,1)-form γ 2 . In complex coordinates, we can write δY m γ I mn σ n = C IJ δZ i ω J i σ + δZω J i σ i . (4.54) e 4A B 1 . Since the effective action cannot depend on the arbitrary point Y * , one way to remove the Y * dependence is to average Y * over the CY. This certainly contains global information about the warp factor and flux. Ultimately, a resolution of these issues will require carrying the σ expansion to higher (or all) orders. One approach, which we will not pursue here, may be to note that physical quantities likeF 5 are independent of Y * , leading to relations between terms at different orders in the σ expansion. These relations may help resum the series in a manner similar to renormalization group flow.
Collecting the effective actions from each sector, we can construct the total effective action. Once again, there is significant cancellation between the different sectors. The total remaining action is assuming we use the replacements (4.55,4.57).

Summary
We provided a unified ansatz for fluctuations of the volume modulus, C 4 axions, and D3brane position in the magnetic formalism and performed a dimensional reduction on this ansatz. Interestingly, the D3-brane EOM as modified according to the results of the previous subsection contains terms of the form i∂bk i ∂Z I + c.c. and additional ∂Y ∂Y kinetic terms. In the electric formalism, these terms had appeared due to the WZ action, which does not exist in the magnetic formalism. Although we have not been able to give a full interpretation of these terms in the magnetic formalism -there are possibly more contributions from higher orders in the formal σ expansion -it is important to note that these crucial "cross terms" in the kinetic action arise due to the backreaction of the brane motion on the 5-form.

Discussion
D-branes are important ingredients in flux compactifications, and their dynamics are essential for understanding the structure of the Kähler moduli of the low energy effective theory as well as applications in string phenomenology and cosmology. For instance, several models of inflation in string theory explicitly use the motion of D-branes in warped regions in their construction (see [7,30]), so a correct description of D-brane dynamics is not of idle interest. We have shown that a consistent dimensional reduction of 10D supergravity in the presence of a D3-brane requires the inclusion of fluctuations in the 10D metric and 5-form gauge potential, in addition to the degrees of freedom of the transverse motion of the D3-brane.
The D3-brane can couple to the 4-form as either an electric or magnetic source, and we presented for both cases the first consistent set of fluctuations that solve the 10D constraint equations. For a D3-brane coupling as a magnetic source, we find a novel field redefinition of the magnetic 4-form potential that allows the 5-form field strength to be written in terms of a globally-defined 4-form plus delta-function-supported terms that make the dependence of F 5 on the D3-brane position explicit. The field redefinition leads to additional terms in the D3-brane equation of motion fromF 5 , which resolve a puzzle involving the no-force condition on a D3-brane in the magnetic description, as well as contributing important terms to the effective action.
Combining our consistent 10D description of transverse D3-brane degrees of freedom with existing descriptions for the volume modulus [24] and C 4 axions [25], we performed a careful dimensional reduction to obtain the 4D effective action. The resulting effective action contains important contributions due to flux and warping, as previously seen in the axion sector in [25]. The calculation involves a remarkable set of cancellations between the compensators and Green's functions, demonstrating the importance of a consistent 10D solution of the constraint equations. We also explicitly demonstrated that there is no "self-energy" problem for the dynamical effective action which might arise from inserting the backreacted brane solution into the brane effective action. The kinetic action includes the expected brane-axion cross-terms as well as kinetic terms for transverse brane motion in addition to the manifest kinetic term in the DBI action. When treating the brane as an electric source, these terms arise from the Hodge dualization of the axions from 2-forms to scalars in the presence of the brane WZ action. When the underlying CY manifold has only a single Kähler modulus, the Kähler potential agrees with the proposal of [7,15]. In the dimensional reduction treating the brane as a magnetic source, these additional terms arise from the explicit dependence ofF 5 on the brane position along with the backreaction of the brane on the 5-form. While we have not reproduced the precise form of the additional D3-brane kinetic terms, there are intriguing hints that these terms could be related to Green's functions on the internal space.
Many cancellations in the dimensional reduction likely occur because of the high degree of structure of the background, including supersymmetry and no-scale structure. An effective action for D3-branes in a more general warped background with interesting applications will likely be more complex, and the techniques developed here can play an important role in the necessary calculation. Moving beyond the probe approximation, which we have argued is necessary, it would be interesting to see if there are modifications to the kinetic part of the effective action arising from the interaction of the D3-brane with the 10D fields. As another example, the dynamics of D3-branes in warped flux backgrounds [31] beyond the probe approximation should also include perturbations to the 10D fields in the effective description. We leave a detailed investigation of these and other applications to future work. Nevertheless, we have seen the importance of a consistent 10D description, solving the constraint equations, for constructing a 4D effective action from dimensional reduction.

Acknowledgments
We would like to thank L. McAllister for helpful discussions during the early stages of this project. B. U. would like to acknowledge support by NSERC, an Institute of Particle Physics Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a Lorne Trottier Fellowship from McGill University for support during the early stages of this project. The work of A. F. and B. C. has also been supported by NSERC.

A Conventions
Here we summarize our conventions and notational shorthand. External, noncompact spacetime coordinates denoted x µ , while internal, compact dimension coordinates are y m ; when used, x M include all coordinates. Brane worldvolume coordinates are ξ a , and the embedding of the worldvolume into spacetime is denoted X / M (ξ) (with ξ dependence sometimes sup- Quantities with a hatˆare associated with the 4D metricη µν , such as raised or lowered indices, the antisymmetric tensorˆ µνλρ (or volume formˆ ). Similarly, any quantity with a tilde˜is associated with the unwarped CY metricg mn . However, as partial derivatives are metric-independent, we do not accent them (ie, we write ∂ µ , ∂ m ) except for raised indices. However, for appearance, we accent the derivatives rather than the square in Laplacians/d'Alembertians, writing∂ 2 and∇ 2 rather than ∂2 and∇2. Ten-dimensional quantities have capital indices but no accents. A superscript (0) with parentheses indicates a background value.
Two other metrics appear in this paper, the worldvolume metric γ ab and an arbitrary metric g ⊥ mn . Indices a, b denote quantities associated with γ ab ; in static gauge ∇ γ µ is also the covariant derivative associated with the worldvolume metric. Quantities associated with g ⊥ mn are denoted with a ⊥ sub-or superscript.
We work with a mostly + metric and define the antisymmetric symbol as a tensor. Similarly, delta functions are defined as scalars, so and δ implicitly carry |g| factors. Combinatorial factors for differential forms are defined as in appendix B of [32]. The wedge symbol in a wedge product may be omitted in in-line mathematics.
Harmonic 2-forms are written in terms of a basis {ω I 2 } on the CY manifold, so any harmonic form can be written as e I ω I 2 for constant coefficients e I . This is not the basis of harmonic forms at a single point; if h 1,1 is greater than the 2nd Betti number of T 6 , the ω I 2 are not all linearly independent at any given point, only as functions. We orthonormalize the basis with respect to the inner product This normalization allows us to choose the Kähler form as ω 1 2 =J, sinceJ 3 = 6˜ and J =J 2 /2. (Strictly speaking, in this paper we only consider 2-forms with positive parity under the orientifold involution, but similar considerations would apply for those with negative parity.)

B Bitensors, Expansions, and Green's Functions
As we have noted previously, any attempt to describe the influence of D-branes on SUGRA fields necessarily involves (at least) two points in spacetime: the position where the SUGRA fields are evaluated and the position of the localized brane source (respectively y m and Y / m in static gauge). The SUGRA fields are generally functions of both of these positions. We also must consider both positions when evaluating the 10D EOM, as there are bulk equations evaluated at y m and brane equations involving fields evaluated at Y / m . At some points, we also introduce a fixed reference point Y m * . As diffeomorphisms in general act differently at different points, we use distinct markings to indicate which transformation acts on a given tensor index (ie, unmarked, slashed, or underlined). Here we give a very brief review of the properties of tensor functions of two spacetime points, known as bitensors, following [33].
A bitensor is a tensorial function of two points in spacetime, which may have indices marked for either of the two points. As an example, the 5-formF 5 has 5 indices associated with the evaluation point y but also depends on the brane position Y , ie,F mnpqr (y, Y ). A key example for us is the 6-dimensional biscalar Dirac distribution (delta function) δ 6 (y, Y ) (for some metric g mn ) defined by Note that the Dirac distribution integrates as a scalar in both coordinates, so it implicitly includes a factor of 1/ √ g. (In the main text, we will consider Dirac distributions for metrics g mn and g ⊥ mn .) To understand the coincidence limit of a bitensor as well as the expansion of a tensor around a fixed point, we consider the Synge world function. This is a biscalar function of y, Y defined by where z m (λ) describes a geodesic with z(λ 0 ) = y and z(λ 1 ) = Y as depicted in figure 2. with the corresponding generalization for covariantly constant tensors. At coincidence y = Y , Λ where the dots represent terms higher order in σ m . In the main text, we use this to expand δ 6 (y, Y ) around Y = Y , taking y as a constant, so the delta function is just a scalar function of Y .
Finally, let us discuss the behavior of Green's functions on curved space. Consider a minimally coupled massless scalar Φ and a vector field A m which satisfy the Poisson equations where µ, j m are sources. We can write the solutions in terms of the biscalar and bitensor Green's functions G(y, y ) and G m m (y, y ) as (in any dimensionality). The Green's functions are defined to satisfy The scalar and tensor Green's functions are related by and vice-versa. We are mostly concerned with the 6D metricg mn and corresponding Green's functionsG(y, Y ) andG m / m (y, Y ).

C Linearized Equations of Motion
In this appendix, we assemble all the linearized 10D EOM for the 10D SUGRA fields; these are the Einstein equations, 5-form and 3-form flux equations, and D3-brane position equations. We will identify how the EOM divide into constraints and dynamical EOM; the electric form of the equations are listed first, followed by the magnetic form.

C.1 Electric Formalism Equations of Motion
Here we provide the EOM for the electric formalism for D3-brane motion. For reference, our ansatz for the SUGRA fields is along with Y / m (x) = Y (0) / m + δY / m (x). As in the main text, the components ofF 5 in square brackets are the magnetic components provided for reference as F 5 of the electric components. Above, and throughout, the metric compensator B 1 (x, y) is the total compensator for all the modulî This is clearly an abuse of notation; for reference,dˆ d ,I 1 to first order. Furthermore, the warp and Weyl factors include first-order contributions, ie A = A(x, y) and Ω = Ω(x). Finally, to allow for the presence of a compensator δC 4 ∼ −db I 2 K I 1 , we do not yet require that ω I 2 be harmonic (though it must be closed to avoid terms inF 5 ∼ b I 2d ω I 2 ). A number of the results in this appendix follow from calculations in [25].

C.1.1 Einstein Equations
The components of the Ricci tensor to first order are We note for later that we did not need to used 2 B 1 = 0, which is not true off shell for (3.17).
Here,R mn is the Ricci tensor ofg mn ; for the CY metrics we consider here, it vanishes, so we setR mn = 0 henceforth. Using these, we can calculate the Ricci curvature, R, to first order and the Einstein tensor, whose components are Next, we determine the stress-energy tensor. We remind the reader that the contributions of the Ramond-Ramond fluxes to the energy-momentum are The resulting energy-momentum tensor for the 5-form (3.19), including terms up to firstorder, has components The resulting energy-momentum tensor for the 3-form (3.20), including terms up to firstorder, has components µν , (C.11) Q ∂ a X / P ∂ b X / Q δ 10 (x, X(ξ)) . (2.8) We will use slashed indicies X / M to refer to the embedding coordinates of the D3-brane and will work in static gauge ξ a = δ a / µ X / µ (ξ). The D3-brane energy-momentum tensor, up to first order, has components T D3 µν = −κ 2 10 T 3 e 8A e 2Ωη µνδ 6 (y, Y ) , (C.14) T D3 µm = −κ 2 10 T 3 e 8A e 2Ω ∂ µ B mδ 6 (y, Y ) − T 3 e 4Ag m/ n ∂ µ Y / n (x)δ 6 (y, Y ) , where · · · denotes the contributions due to local sources other than our mobile D3-brane, whose precise forms are unimportant. The Einstein equations contain both constraints and dynamical EOM For example, the (µν) and (µm) components both contain the Poisson equation (3.21) that determines the warp factor to be (3.23), which now must be satisfied to first order point-by-point on the external spacetime (in this way, our choice of coordinates is similar to the Coulomb gauge of Maxwell theory). The (µν) component (C.17) also contains a constraint proportional to ∂ µ ∂ ν −η µν∂ 2 (yielding (3.22)) and a dynamical EOM in the last term, while the remainder of the (µm) component (C. 18) is a constraint (3.25) determining the contribution of each modulus to B m (this gives both (3.11,3.26)). Finally, E mn is entirely second-order in external spacetime derivatives and contributes a dynamical EOM.

C.1.2 Form Flux EOM
In addition to the 10D Einstein equations, we also have 10D EOM from the 5-form and 3-form fluxes, given by √ −γ δ 10 (x, X(ξ)) , (2.11) Each component of E 6 leads to a distinct constraint or dynamical EOM. The constraints largely repeat those from the Einstein equations: the first three terms of (C.20) are once again the instantaneous Poisson equation for the warp factor. For reasons explained in footnote 9, we ignore thed∂ 2˜ B 1 term, so the (1,5) components of E 6 nearly reproduce (C.18) (up to a Hodge star). They differ only by a term proportional tod˜ ω I 2 ; therefore, we see that ω I 2 must be harmonic or alternately that any compensatordb 2 K 1 in C 4 must vanish. The dynamical EOM include (0,6) and (2,4) components and yield (3.36) once the definition (3.28) is taken into account.
Meanwhile, the 3-form EOM becomes (C.21) The first term (in square brackets) gives (3.29), the constraint determining Λ I 1 . The remainder of the terms give the dynamical EOM δE 8 , but do not contribute to the 2-derivative quadratic action because they either have the wrong legs to wedge with δA 2 , contribute only at higher derivative order, or both.

C.1.3 Brane EOM
Finally, the D3-brane EOM is As noted in the main text, we have ignored terms proportional to the derivative of the delta function, as they vanish in the variation of the action upon integration by parts. We evaluate these EOM in the static gauge using the 4-form background corresponding to (3.19), ie The second line of (2.14) vanishes identically, and the terms in the first line containing g / m / µ and C / m / µ/ ν / ρ , both of which include the B 1 compensator, cancel each other.

C.2 Magnetic Equations of Motion
In this section, we will compute the 10D EOM for the gravity, 5-form flux, 3-form flux, and local sources for the magnetic form. The ansatz for all moduli is ds 2 = e 2Ω e 2Aη µν dx µ dx ν + 2e 2Ω e 2A ∂ µ B m (x, y)dx µ dy m + e −2Ag mn dy m dy n , (3.15) As before, Ω(x), A(x, y) contain both background and first-order parts. Here, ω I 2 is harmonic, and there is an explicit compensator K I 3 for the axions. The form γ I 2 is shorthand for 3 − c.c. + e 2Ωd B I 1 ≡ C IJ ω J 2 , (4.42) which we will motivate from the constraints below; as we will also see that γ I 2 must be harmonic, C IJ is a change-of-basis matrix defined as in (3.38), which can depend on the background values of the moduli in general. Again, many of the following results are adapted from [25].

C.2.1 Einstein Equations
The metric is the same in the magnetic formalism as the electric formalism, with the exception that the B m compensator takes a somewhat different form. However, the Einstein tensor is independent of the particular form of B m , so the Einstein tensor is still given by equations (C.5,C.6,C.7).
The energy-momentum tensors are similar to the electric formalism but not quite identical. We find

D Kähler Potential and Kinetic Action
As is well-known, GKP compactifications have N = 1 SUGRA (possibly with spontaneously broken supersymmetry) as their 4D effective theory. As a result, the metric on moduli space must be Kähler, meaning that moduli space is complex and that the hermitean metric on moduli space is Kähler G ab = ∂ a ∂bK. Here we consider the kinetic Lagrangian L = G ab ∂ µ φ a ∂ µφb for the Kähler potential Using (D.1), each term is: ∂ ρ ∂ρK ∂ρ∂ρ = 3 4c 2 (∂b) 2 + (∂c) 2 + γ∂c(∂ Z k ∂Z + ∂Zk ∂Z) Based on the form of (D.7), what we anticipate seeing in the quadratic action are separate quadratic terms for the scalar axion, volume modulus, and the D3-brane; a second-derivative of the internal Kähler potential; sets of derivatives (holomorphic, antiholomorphic, and mixed) acting on k; and a coupling between the axion and D3-brane moduli.