On the algebraic structure of Killing superalgebras

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2017.V21.N5.A1zbMATH Open1382.83116arXiv1608.05915OpenAlexW2962912300WikidataQ130142073 ScholiaQ130142073MaRDI QIDQ1704532FDOQ1704532

Authors: Andrea Santi, José Figueroa-O'Farrill 

Publication date: 12 March 2018

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the algebraic structure of the Killing superalgebra of a supersymmetric background of $11$-dimensional supergravity and show that it is isomorphic to a filtered deformation of a $mathbbZ$-graded subalgebra of the Poincar'e superalgebra. We are able to map the classification problem for highly supersymmetric backgrounds (i.e., those which preserve more than half the supersymmetry) to the classification problem of a certain class of filtered deformations of graded subalgebras of the Poincar'e superalgebra. We show that one can reconstruct a highly supersymmetric background from its Killing superalgebra; in so doing, we relate the bosonic field equations of $11$-dimensional supergravity to the Jacobi identity of the Killing superalgebra and show in this way that preserving more than half the supersymmetry implies the bosonic field equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05915

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zbMATH Keywords

bosonic field equationsPoincaré superalgebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15) Superalgebras (17A70) Graded Lie (super)algebras (17B70) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Supergravity (83E50) Structure theory for Lie algebras and superalgebras (17B05)

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• Kaluza-Klein reductions of maximally supersymmetric five-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes
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• Killing superalgebras for Lorentzian five-manifolds
• Killing superalgebras for Lorentzian four-manifolds
• Conformal Lie algebras via deformation theory
• Remarks on highly supersymmetric backgrounds of 11-dimensional supergravity
• Supergravities and branes from Hilbert-Poincaré series

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