Curvature squared invariants in six-dimensional N = (1, 0) supergravity

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sponsorship: We are grateful to Sylverster James Gates Jr., Fridrik Freyr Gautason, Pietro Antonio Grassi, Stefanos Katmadas, William D. Linch III, Ergin Sezgin, Antoine Van Proeyen, and Thomas Van Riet for discussions. The work of DB was partially supported by NSF under grants PHY-1521099 and PHY-1620742 and the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University. JN was supported by the GIF, German-Israeli Foundation, for Scientific Research and Development and a Humboldt research fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The work of MO is supported in part by TUBITAK grant 118F091. YP was supported by an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship and by a Newton International Fellowship of the UK Royal Society. The work of GT-M was supported by the Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme initiated by the Belgian Science Policy (P7/37), by the COST Action MP1210, by the KU Leuven C1 grant ZKD1118 C16/16/005, by the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, and by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship FT180100353. GT-M thanks the Arnold-Regge Center and the Theory Group of the University of Turin, the Mitchell Institute at Texas A&M, the High Energy Theory Group at Brown University, the High Energy Theory Group at the University of Vienna, and the Theory Group of the University of Milan for kind hospitality and support during part of this project. (NSF|PHY-1521099, NSF|PHY-1620742, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas AM University, GIF, German-Israeli Foundation, for Scientific Research and Development, Humboldt research fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, TUBITAK|118F091, Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, Newton International Fellowship of the UK Royal Society, Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme, Belgian Science Policy|P7/37, COST Action|MP1210, KU Leuven C1 grant|ZKD1118 C16/16/005, Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship|FT180100353, Arnold-Regge Center of the University of Turin, Theory Group of the University of Turin, Mitchell Institute at Texas AM, High Energy Theory Group at Brown University, High Energy Theory Group at the University of Vienna, Theory Group of the University of Milan)