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Invariant Killing spinors in 11D and type II supergravities
We present all isotropy groups and associated groups, up to discrete
identifications of the component connected to the identity, of spinors of
eleven-dimensional and type II supergravities. The groups are products
of a Spin group and an R-symmetry group of a suitable lower dimensional
supergravity theory. Using the case of SU(4)-invariant spinors as a paradigm,
we demonstrate that the groups, and so the R-symmetry groups of
lower-dimensional supergravity theories arising from compactifications, have
disconnected components. These lead to discrete symmetry groups reminiscent of
R-parity. We examine the role of disconnected components of the groups
in the choice of Killing spinor representatives and in the context of
compactifications.Comment: 22 pages, typos correcte
All null supersymmetric backgrounds of N=2, D=4 gauged supergravity coupled to abelian vector multiplets
The lightlike supersymmetric solutions of N=2, D=4 gauged supergravity
coupled to an arbitrary number of abelian vector multiplets are classified
using spinorial geometry techniques. The solutions fall into two classes,
depending on whether the Killing spinor is constant or not. In both cases, we
give explicit examples of supersymmetric backgrounds. Among these BPS
solutions, which preserve one quarter of the supersymmetry, there are
gravitational waves propagating on domain walls or on bubbles of nothing that
asymptote to AdS_4. Furthermore, we obtain the additional constraints obeyed by
half-supersymmetric vacua. These are divided into four categories, that include
bubbles of nothing which are asymptotically AdS_4, pp-waves on domain walls,
AdS_3 x R, and spacetimes conformal to AdS_3 times an interval.Comment: 55 pages, uses JHEP3.cls. v2: Minor errors corrected, small changes
in introductio
IIB solutions with N>28 Killing spinors are maximally supersymmetric
We show that all IIB supergravity backgrounds which admit more than 28
Killing spinors are maximally supersymmetric. In particular, we find that for
all N>28 backgrounds the supercovariant curvature vanishes, and that the
quotients of maximally supersymmetric backgrounds either preserve all 32 or
N<29 supersymmetries.Comment: 27 page
The supersymmetric solutions and extensions of ungauged matter-coupled N=1,d=4 supergravity
We find the most general supersymmetric solutions of ungauged N=1,d=4
supergravity coupled to an arbitrary number of vector and chiral
supermultiplets, which turn out to be essentially pp-waves and strings. We also
introduce magnetic 1-forms and their supersymmetry transformations and 2-forms
associated to the isometries of the scalar manifold and their supersymmetry
transformations. Only the latter can couple to BPS objects (strings), in
agreement with our results.Comment: Some misprints and citations correcte
M-Horizons
We solve the Killing spinor equations and determine the near horizon
geometries of M-theory that preserve at least one supersymmetry. The M-horizon
spatial sections are 9-dimensional manifolds with a Spin(7) structure
restricted by geometric constraints which we give explicitly. We also provide
an alternative characterization of the solutions of the Killing spinor
equation, utilizing the compactness of the horizon section and the field
equations, by proving a Lichnerowicz type of theorem which implies that the
zero modes of a Dirac operator coupled to 4-form fluxes are Killing spinors. We
use this, and the maximum principle, to solve the field equations of the theory
for some special cases and present some examples.Comment: 36 pages, latex. Reference added, minor typos correcte
Supersymmetric geometries of IIA supergravity I
IIA supergravity backgrounds preserving one supersymmetry locally admit four
types of Killing spinors distinguished by the orbits of on the
space of spinors. We solve the Killing spinor equations of IIA supergravity
with and without cosmological constant for Killing spinors representing two of
these orbits, with isotropy groups and .
In both cases, we identify the geometry of spacetime and express the fluxes in
terms of the geometry. We find that the geometric constraints of backgrounds
with a invariant Killing spinor are identical to
those found for heterotic backgrounds preserving one supersymmetry.Comment: 21 page
IIB backgrounds with five-form flux
We investigate all N=2 supersymmetric IIB supergravity backgrounds with
non-vanishing five-form flux. The Killing spinors have stability subgroups
Spin(7)\ltimes\bR^8, SU(4)\ltimes\bR^8 and . In the
SU(4)\ltimes\bR^8 case, two different types of geometry arise depending on
whether the Killing spinors are generic or pure. In both cases, the backgrounds
admit a null Killing vector field which leaves invariant the SU(4)\ltimes
\bR^8 structure, and an almost complex structure in the directions transverse
to the lightcone. In the generic case, the twist of the vector field is trivial
but the almost complex structure is non-integrable, while in the pure case the
twist is non-trivial but the almost complex structure is integrable and
associated with a relatively balanced Hermitian structure. The
backgrounds admit a time-like Killing vector field and two spacelike closed
one-forms, and the seven directions transverse to these admit a co-symplectic
structure. The Spin(7)\ltimes\bR^8 backgrounds are pp-waves propagating
in an eight-dimensional manifold with holonomy . In addition we show
that all the supersymmetric solutions of simple five-dimensional supergravity
with a time-like Killing vector field, which include the black holes,
lift to SU(4)\ltimes\bR^8 pure Killing spinor IIB backgrounds. We also show
that the LLM solution is associated with a co-symplectic co-homogeneity one
manifold which has principal orbit .Comment: 39 pages, typos corrected and references amende
Classification of IIB backgrounds with 28 supersymmetries
We show that all IIB backgrounds with strictly 28 supersymmetries are locally
isometric to the plane wave solution of arXiv:hep-th/0206195. Moreover, we
demonstrate that all solutions with more than 26 supersymmetries and only
5-form flux are maximally supersymmetric. The N=28 plane wave solution is a
superposition of the maximally supersymmetric IIB plane wave with a heterotic
string solution. We investigate the propagation of strings in this background,
find the spectrum and give the string light-cone Hamiltonian.Comment: 30 pages, typos correcte
Geometry of all supersymmetric four-dimensional supergravity backgrounds
We solve the Killing spinor equations of supergravity, with four
supercharges, coupled to any number of vector and scalar multiplets in all
cases. We find that backgrounds with N=1 supersymmetry admit a null,
integrable, Killing vector field. There are two classes of N=2 backgrounds. The
spacetime in the first class admits a parallel null vector field and so it is a
pp-wave. The spacetime of the other class admits three Killing vector fields,
and a vector field that commutes with the three Killing directions. These
backgrounds are of cohomogeneity one with homogenous sections either
\bR^{2,1} or and have an interpretation as domain walls. The N=3
backgrounds are locally maximally supersymmetric. There are N=3 backgrounds
which arise as discrete identifications of maximally supersymmetric ones. The
maximally supersymmetric backgrounds are locally isometric to either
\bR^{3,1} or .Comment: 15 pages; minor changes, references added, published versio
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