Geometric construction of the r-map: From affine special real to special Kähler manifolds

DOI10.1007/S00220-009-0803-7MaRDI QIDQ1048103zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dmitri Alekseevsky, V. Cortés

Publication date 11 January 2010

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1658

zbMATH Keywords

Hessian manifoldnondegenerate hypersurfaceprojective very special real geometrysupergravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

Abstract: We give an intrinsic definition of (affine very) special real manifolds and realise any such manifold $M$ as a domain in affine space equipped with a metric which is the Hessian of a cubic polynomial. We prove that the tangent bundle $N=TM$ carries a canonical structure of (affine) special K"ahler manifold. This gives an intrinsic description of the $r$-map as the map $MmapstoN=TM$. On the physics side, this map corresponds to the dimensional reduction of rigid vector multiplets from 5 to 4 space-time dimensions. We generalise this construction to the case when $M$ is any Hessian manifold.

Review text

Projective (or local) very special real geometry is the scalar geometry of five-dimensional supergravity coupled to vector multiplets. It is locally the geometry of a nondegenerate hypersurface \(\mathcal{H} \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) defined by a homogeneous cubic polynomial \(h\). In relation with string compactifications, the polynomial \(h\) could be, for instance, the cubic form \[ h([\alpha]) = \int_{X} \alpha \wedge \alpha \wedge \alpha \] on the second cohomology of a Calabi-Yau 3-fold \(X\). In the paper under review, the authors give an intrinsic definition of (affine very) special real manifolds and realize any such manifold \(M\) as a domain in affine space equipped with a metric which is the Hessian of a cubic polynomial. It is proved that the tangent bundle \(N = TM\) carries a canonical structure of an (affine) special Kähler manifold. This gives an intrinsic description of the \(r\)-map as the map \(M \rightarrow N = TM\). From the viewpoint of physics, this map corresponds to the dimensional reduction of rigid vector multiplets from \(5\) to \(4\) space-time dimensions. This construction is generalized to the case when \(M\) is any Hessian manifold.

Recommendations

• ASK/PSK-correspondence and the \(r\)-map
• \(c\)-map, very special quaternionic geometry and dual Kähler spaces
• Symmetry structure of special geometries
• Special Kähler manifolds
• Special geometry and symplectic transformations

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Cited in

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• Five-dimensional Nernst branes from special geometry
• Statistical mirror symmetry
• Special Vinberg cones
• Left invariant special Kähler structures
• Non-extremal black hole solutions from the \(c\)-map
• Special geometry of Euclidean supersymmetry. IV: The local c-map
• Selfsimilar Hessian manifolds
• Self-similar Hessian and conformally Kähler manifolds
• Properties of the moduli set of complete connected projective special real manifolds
• Conification of Kähler and hyper-Kähler manifolds
• Completeness in supergravity constructions
• Real symplectic formulation of local special geometry
• Real forms of embeddings of maximal reductive subalgebras of the complex simple Lie algebras of rank up to 8
• Jordan algebraic interpretation of maximal parabolic subalgebras: exceptional Lie algebras
• Special Vinberg cones, invariant admissible cubics and special real manifolds
• Special Vinberg cones of rank 4
• Hessian structures for homogeneous Gödel-type spacetimes
• Special geometry, Hessian structures and applications

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