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The study of axion models and quantum corrections to their potential has experienced great progress by phrasing the axion potential in terms of a 3-form field eating up the 2-form field dual to the axion. Such reformulation of the axion potential has been described for axion monodromy models and for axion potentials from non-perturbative gauge dynamics. In this paper we propose a 3-form description of the axion potentials from non-gauge D-brane instantons. Interestingly, the required 3-form field does not arise in the underlying geometry, but rather shows up in the KK compactification in the generalized geometry obtained when the backreaction of the D-brane instanton is taken into account.
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García-Valdecasas, E., Uranga, A. On the 3-form formulation of axion potentials from D-brane instantons. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 87 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2017)087
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