Z. Lalak et S. Thomas, GAUGINO CONDENSATION, MODULI POTENTIAL AND SUPERSYMMETRY BREAKING IN M-THEORY MODELS, Nuclear physics. B, 515(1-2), 1998, pp. 55-72
We derive the explicit form, and discuss some properties of the moduli
-dependent effective potential arising from M-theory compactified on M
-4 x X x S-1/Z(2), when one of the boundaries supports a strongly inte
racting gauge sector and induces gaugino condensation. We discuss the
relation between the explicit gaugino condensate and effective superpo
tential formulations and find interesting differences with respect to
the situation known from the weakly coupled heterotic string case. The
moduli dependence of the effective potential turns out to be more com
plicated than expected, and perhaps offers new clues to the stabilizat
ion problem. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.