34 research outputs found
Book review: Making kin: ecofeminist essays from Singapore edited by Esther Vincent and Angelia Poon
In Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore, editors Esther Vincent and Angelia Poon offer an evocative collection of personal essays by a diverse group of women as they experience life in Singapore and beyond. Eloquently crafted to âmake timeâ for ruminating on the overlapping discourses of selfhood, family, home, community, nation and ecology, this book will be of interest to readers of ecofeminist and ecocritical literatures, writes Alexandria Z.W. Chong. Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore. Esther Vincent and Angelia Poon (eds). Ethos Books. 2021
Non-Extremal Rotating Black Holes in Five-Dimensional Gauged Supergravity
Supersymmetric black holes in five-dimensional gauged supergravity must
necessarily be rotating, and so in order to study the passage to black holes
away from supersymmetry, it is of great interest to obtain non-extremal black
holes that again have non-zero rotation. In this paper we find a simple
framework for describing non-extremal rotating black holes in five-dimensional
gauged supergravities. Using this framework, we are able to construct a new
solution, describing the general single-charge solution of N=2 gauged
supergravity, with arbitrary values for the two rotation parameters.
Previously-obtained solutions with two or three equal charges also assume a
much simpler form in the new framework, as also does the general solution with
three unequal charges in ungauged N=2 supergravity. We discuss the
thermodynamics and BPS limit of the new single-charge solutions, and we discuss
the separability of the Hamilton-Jacobi and Klein-Gordan equations in these
backgrounds.Comment: Latex, 12 pages. Mis-statement about separability of Hamilton-Jacobi
and Klein-Gordon equations correcte
General Supersymmetric Solutions of Five-Dimensional Supergravity
The classification of 1/4-supersymmetric solutions of five dimensional gauged
supergravity coupled to arbitrary many abelian vector multiplets, which was
initiated in hep-th/0401129, is completed. The structure of all solutions for
which the Killing vector constructed from the Killing spinor is null is
investigated in both the gauged and the ungauged theories and some new
solutions are constructed.Comment: 24 pages, references added, uses JHEP3.cl
Finite N Index and Angular Momentum Bound from Gravity
We exactly compute the finite N index and BPS partition functions for N=4 SYM
theory in a newly proposed maximal angular momentum limit. The new limit is not
predicted from the superconformal algebra, but naturally arises from the
supergravity dual. We show that the index does not receive any finite N
corrections while the free BPS partition function does.Comment: 14 pages, v2: minor revisions, published versio
Rotating strings and D2-branes in type IIA reduction of M-theory on G2 manifold and their semiclassical limits
We consider rotating strings and D2-branes on type IIA background, which
arises as dimensional reduction of M-theory on manifold of G2 holonomy, dual to
N=1 gauge theory in four dimensions. We obtain exact solutions and explicit
expressions for the conserved charges. By taking the semiclassical limit, we
show that the rotating strings can reproduce only one type of semiclassical
behavior, exhibited by rotating M2-branes on G2 manifolds. Our further
investigation leads to the conclusion that the rotating D2-branes reproduce two
types of the semiclassical energy-charge relations known for membranes in
eleven dimensions.Comment: LaTeX, 29 pages, no figures; V2:comments added; V3:no changes, to
appear in JHE
Spinor Fields and Symmetries of the Spacetime
In the background of a stationary black hole, the "conserved current" of a
particular spinor field always approaches the null Killing vector on the
horizon. What's more, when the black hole is asymptotically flat and when the
coordinate system is asymptotically static, then the same current also
approaches the time Killing vector at the spatial infinity. We test these
results against various black hole solutions and no exception is found. The
spinor field only needs to satisfy a very general and simple constraint.Comment: 19 page
General Metrics of G_2 Holonomy and Contraction Limits
We obtain first-order equations for G_2 holonomy of a wide class of metrics
with S^3\times S^3 principal orbits and SU(2)\times SU(2) isometry, using a
method recently introduced by Hitchin. The new construction extends previous
results, and encompasses all previously-obtained first-order systems for such
metrics. We also study various group contractions of the principal orbits,
focusing on cases where one of the S^3 factors is subjected to an Abelian,
Heisenberg or Euclidean-group contraction. In the Abelian contraction, we
recover some recently-constructed G_2 metrics with S^3\times T^3 principal
orbits. We obtain explicit solutions of these contracted equations in cases
where there is an additional U(1) isometry. We also demonstrate that the only
solutions of the full system with S^3\times T^3 principal orbits that are
complete and non-singular are either flat R^4 times T^3, or else the direct
product of Eguchi-Hanson and T^3, which is asymptotic to R^4/Z_2\times T^3.
These examples are in accord with a general discussion of isometric fibrations
by tori which, as we show, in general split off as direct products. We also
give some (incomplete) examples of fibrations of G_2 manifolds by associative
3-tori with either T^4 or K3 as base.Comment: Latex, 27 page
Kahler Potential for M-theory on a G_2 Manifold
We compute the moduli Kahler potential for M-theory on a compact manifold of
G_2 holonomy in a large radius approximation. Our method relies on an explicit
G_2 structure with small torsion, its periods and the calculation of the
approximate volume of the manifold. As a verification of our result, some of
the components of the Kahler metric are computed directly by integration over
harmonic forms. We also discuss the modification of our result in the presence
of co-dimension four singularities and derive the gauge-kinetic functions for
the massless gauge fields that arise in this case.Comment: 31 pages, Latex. Altered discussion of truncation of field content,
some typos corrected and references added. Version to appear in Phys. Rev .
On a class of 4D Kahler bases and AdS_5 supersymmetric Black Holes
We construct a class of toric Kahler manifolds, M_4, of real dimension four,
a subset of which corresponds to the Kahler bases of all known 5D
asymptotically AdS_5 supersymmetric black-holes. In a certain limit, these
Kahler spaces take the form of cones over Sasaki spaces, which, in turn, are
fibrations over toric manifolds of real dimension two. The metric on M_4 is
completely determined by a single function H(x), which is the conformal factor
of the two dimensional space. We study the solutions of minimal five
dimensional gauged supergravity having this class of Kahler spaces as base and
show that in order to generate a five dimensional solution H(x) must obey a
simple sixth order differential equation. We discuss the solutions in detail,
which include all known asymptotically AdS_5 black holes as well as other
spacetimes with non-compact horizons. Moreover we find an infinite number of
supersymmetric deformations of these spacetimes with less spatial isometries
than the base space. These deformations vanish at the horizon, but become
relevant asymptotically.Comment: 34 pages, 3 figures. v2: formula (8.35) and other minor typos
corrected; references added; accepted for publication in JHE
Geometries with Killing Spinors and Supersymmetric AdS Solutions
The seven and nine dimensional geometries associated with certain classes of
supersymmetric and solutions of type IIB and D=11 supergravity,
respectively, have many similarities with Sasaki-Einstein geometry. We further
elucidate their properties and also generalise them to higher odd dimensions by
introducing a new class of complex geometries in dimensions, specified
by a Riemannian metric, a scalar field and a closed three-form, which admit a
particular kind of Killing spinor. In particular, for , we show that
when the geometry in dimensions is a cone we obtain a class of
geometries in dimensions, specified by a Riemannian metric, a scalar
field and a closed two-form, which includes the seven and nine-dimensional
geometries mentioned above when , respectively. We also consider various
ansatz for the geometries and construct infinite classes of explicit examples
for all .Comment: 28 page