177 research outputs found
On The Stability Of Non-Supersymmetric AdS Vacua
We consider two infinite families of Non-Supersymmetric vacua, called
Type 2) and Type 3) vacua, that arise in massive IIA supergravity with flux. We
show that both families are perturbatively stable. We then examine
non-perturbative decays of these vacua to other supersymmetric and
non-supersymmetric vacua mediated by instantons in the thin wall
approximation. We find that many decays are ruled out since the tension of the
interpolating domain wall is too big compared to the energy difference in AdS
units. In fact, within our approximations no decays of Type 2) vacua are
allowed, although some decays are only marginally forbidden. This can be
understood in terms of a "pairing symmetry" in the landscape which relate Type
2) vacua with supersymmetric ones of the same energy.Comment: 50 pages, Minor changes in section 2.2.
IIA/IIB Supergravity and Ten-forms
We perform a careful investigation of which p-form fields can be introduced
consistently with the supersymmetry algebra of IIA and/or IIB ten-dimensional
supergravity. In particular the ten-forms, also known as "top-forms", require a
careful analysis since in this case, as we will show, closure of the
supersymmetry algebra at the linear level does not imply closure at the
non-linear level. Consequently, some of the (IIA and IIB) ten-form potentials
introduced in earlier work of some of us are discarded. At the same time we
show that new ten-form potentials, consistent with the full non-linear
supersymmetry algebra can be introduced. We give a superspace explanation of
our work. All of our results are precisely in line with the predictions of the
E(11) algebra.Comment: 17 page
Generalized gaugings and the field-antifield formalism
We discuss the algebra of general gauge theories that are described by the
embedding tensor formalism. We compare the gauge transformations dependent and
independent of an invariant action, and argue that the generic transformations
lead to an infinitely reducible algebra. We connect the embedding tensor
formalism to the field-antifield (or Batalin-Vilkovisky) formalism, which is
the most general formulation known for general gauge theories and their
quantization. The structure equations of the embedding tensor formalism are
included in the master equation of the field-antifield formalism.Comment: 42 pages; v2: some clarifications and 1 reference added; version to
be published in JHE
Non-supersymmetric Extremal RN-AdS Black Holes in N=2 Gauged Supergravity
We investigate extremal Reissner-Nordstrom-AdS black holes in
four-dimensional N=2 abelian gauged supergravity. We find a new attractor
equation which is not reduced to the one in the asymptotically flat spacetime.
Focusing on so-called the T^3-model with a single neutral vector multiplet, we
obtain non-supersymmetric extremal Reissner-Nordstrom-AdS black hole solutions
with regular event horizon in the D0-D4 and the D2-D6 charge configurations.
The negative cosmological constant emerges even without the Fayet-Iliopoulos
parameters. Furthermore, we also argue the formal description of the
non-supersymmetric black hole solutions of the T^3-model and the STU-model in
generic configurations.Comment: 23 pages, accepted version in JHE
Absence of a Fermi surface in classical minimal four-dimensional gauged supergravity
We demonstrate that the two point function of the supercurrent dual to the
gravitino in the four-dimensional extremal anti-de Sitter Reissner-Nordstrom
black hole does not exhibit a Fermi surface singularity. In our analysis, we
utilize the ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinate system, which enables us
to bypass certain complications in the determination of the allowed near
horizon behavior of the gravitino field at zero frequency. We check that our
method agrees with previous results for the massless charged Dirac field.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figur
Black Hole Hair Removal: Non-linear Analysis
BMPV black holes in flat transverse space and in Taub-NUT space have
identical near horizon geometries but different microscopic degeneracies. It
has been proposed that this difference can be accounted for by different
contribution to the degeneracies of these black holes from hair modes, --
degrees of freedom living outside the horizon. In this paper we explicitly
construct the hair modes of these two black holes as finite bosonic and
fermionic deformations of the black hole solution satisfying the full
non-linear equations of motion of supergravity and preserving the supersymmetry
of the original solutions. Special care is taken to ensure that these solutions
do not have any curvature singularity at the future horizon when viewed as the
full ten dimensional geometry. We show that after removing the contribution due
to the hair degrees of freedom from the microscopic partition function, the
partition functions of the two black holes agree.Comment: 40 pages, LaTe
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
The Tensor Hierarchies of Pure N=2,d=4,5,6 Supergravities
We study the supersymmetric tensor hierarchy of pure (gauged) N=2,d=4,5,6
supergravity and compare them with those of the pure, ungauged, theories
(worked out by Gomis and Roest for d=5) and the predictions of the Kac-Moody
approach made by Kleinschmidt and Roest. We find complete agreement in the
ungauged case but we also find that, after gauging, new Stueckelberg symmetries
reduce the number of independent "physical" top-forms. The analysis has to be
performed to all orders in fermion fields.
We discuss the construction of the worldvolume effective actions for the
p-branes which are charged with respect to the (p+1)-form potentials and the
relations between the tensor hierarchies and p-branes upon dimensional
reduction.Comment: LaTeX2e file, 20 pages, 1 figure Results refined by extension of the
analysis to all orders in fermion
Spacetime Noncommutativity in Models with Warped Extradimensions
We construct consistent noncommutative (NC) deformations of the
Randall-Sundrum spacetime that solve the NC Einstein equations with a
non-trivial Poisson tensor depending on the fifth coordinate. In a class of
these deformations where the Poisson tensor is exponentially localized on one
of the branes (the NC-brane), we study the effects on bulk particles in terms
of Lorentz-violating operators induced by NC-brane interactions. We sketch two
models in which massive bulk particles mediate NC effects to an
almost-commutative SM-brane, such that observables at high energy colliders are
enhanced with respect to low energy and astrophysical observables.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX, pdf figures included, to appear in JHE
Rotating BPS black holes in matter-coupled AdS(4) supergravity
Using the general recipe given in arXiv:0804.0009, where all timelike
supersymmetric solutions of N=2, D=4 gauged supergravity coupled to abelian
vector multiplets were classified, we construct genuine rotating supersymmetric
black holes in AdS(4) with nonconstant scalar fields. This is done for the
SU(1,1)/U(1) model with prepotential F=-iX^0X^1. In the static case, the black
holes are uplifted to eleven dimensions, and generalize the solution found in
hep-th/0105250 corresponding to membranes wrapping holomorphic curves in a
Calabi-Yau five-fold. The constructed rotating black holes preserve one quarter
of the supersymmetry, whereas their near-horizon geometry is one half BPS.
Moreover, for constant scalars, we generalize (a supersymmetric subclass of)
the Plebanski-Demianski solution of cosmological Einstein-Maxwell theory to an
arbitrary number of vector multiplets. Remarkably, the latter turns out to be
related to the dimensionally reduced gravitational Chern-Simons action.Comment: 23 pages, uses JHEP3.cl
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