Domain walls and instantons in N = 1, d = 4 supergravity

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2010)001zbMATH Open1290.81124arXiv0912.3672MaRDI QIDQ2454331FDOQ2454331

Patrick Meessen, Tomás Ortín, Mechthild Hübscher

Publication date: 13 June 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the supersymmetric sources of (multi-) domain-wall and (multi-) instanton solutions of generic N=1, d=4 supergravities, that is: the worldvolume effective actions for said supersymmetric topological defects. The domain-wall solutions naturally couple to the two 3-forms recently found as part of the N=1, d=4 tensor hierarchy (i.e. they have two charges in general) and their tension is the absolute value of the superpotential section L. The introduction of sources (we study sources with finite and vanishing thickness) is equivalent to the introduction of local coupling constants and results in dramatic changes of the solutions. Our results call for a democratic reformulation of N=1,d=4 supergravity in which coupling constants are, off-shell, scalar fields. The effective actions for the instantons are always proportional to the coordinate orthogonal to the twist-free embedding of the null-geodesic (in the Wick-rotated scalar manifold) describing the instanton. We show their supersymmetry and find the associated supersymmetric (multi-) instanton solutions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3672

zbMATH Keywords

D-branesp-branessupergravity modelssupersymmetric effective theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Supergravity (83E50)

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