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Horizons in de-Sitter Supergravity
We classify all pseudo-supersymmetric extremal near-horizon geometries in
minimal five-dimensional de-Sitter supergravity. It is shown that the only such
near-horizon geometry is the near-horizon geometry of the de-Sitter BMPV
solution, and hence there are no regular extremal pseudo-supersymmetric
asymptotically de-Sitter black rings.Comment: 26 pages, latex. Minor typos in equations (4.16) and (6.12) correcte
Index theory and dynamical symmetry enhancement of M-horizons
We show that near-horizon geometries of 11-dimensional supergravity preserve
an even number of supersymmetries. The proof follows from Lichnerowicz type
theorems for two horizon Dirac operators, the field equations and Bianchi
identities, and the vanishing of the index of a Dirac operator on the
9-dimensional horizon sections. As a consequence of this, we also prove that
all M-horizons with non-vanishing fluxes admit a sl(2,R) subalgebra of
symmetries.Comment: Minor typos corrected. 22 pages, latex. Repeats equations and
descriptions from arXiv:1207.708
On supersymmetric AdS6 solutions in 10 and 11 dimensions
We prove a non-existence theorem for smooth, supersymmetric, warped AdS6
solutions with connected, compact without boundary internal space in D=11 and
(massive) IIA supergravities. In IIB supergravity we show that if such AdS6
solutions exist, then the NSNS and RR 3-form fluxes must be linearly
independent and certain spinor bi-linears must be appropriately restricted.
Moreover we demonstrate that the internal space admits an so(3) action which
leaves all the fields invariant and for smooth solutions the principal orbits
must have co-dimension two. We also describe the topology and geometry of
internal spaces that admit such a so(3) action and show that there are no
solutions for which the internal space has topology F * S^2, where F is an
oriented surface.Comment: 26 pages, late
Index theory and dynamical symmetry enhancement near IIB horizons
We show that the number of supersymmetries of IIB black hole horizons is N=2
N_- + 2 index(D_\lambda), where index(D_\lambda) is the index of the Dirac
operator twisted with the line bundle \lambda^{1/2} of IIB scalars, and N_- is
the dimension of the kernel of a horizon Dirac operator which depends on IIB
fluxes. Therefore, all IIB horizons preserve an even number of supersymmetries.
In addition if the horizons have non-trivial fluxes and N_- is nonzero, then
index(D_\lambda) is non-negative, and the horizons admit an sl(2,R) symmetry
subalgebra. This provides evidence that all such horizons have an AdS/CFT dual.
Furthermore if the orbits of sl(2,R) are two-dimensional, the IIB horizons are
warped products AdS_2 X S.Comment: 37 pages, late
Gravitational Instantons and Euclidean Supersymmetry
Supersymmetric instanton solutions in four dimensional Euclidean ungauged
Einstein-Maxwell theory are analysed and classified according to the fraction
of supersymmetry they preserve, using spinorial geometry techniques.Comment: 10 pages, late
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
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