The landscape of G-structures in eight-manifold compactifications of M-theory

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Abstract: We consider spaces of "virtual" constrained generalized Killing spinors, i.e. spaces of Majorana spinors which correspond to "off-shell" s-extended supersymmetry in compactifications of eleven-dimensional supergravity based on eight-manifolds M. Such spaces naturally induce two stratifications of M, called the chirality and stabilizer stratification. For the case s=2, we describe the former using the canonical Whitney stratification of a three-dimensional semi-algebraic set calR. We also show that the stabilizer stratification coincides with the rank stratification of a cosmooth generalized distribution calD0 and describe it explicitly using the Whitney stratification of a four-dimensional semi-algebraic set mathfrakP. The stabilizer groups along the strata are isomorphic with mathrmSU(2), mathrmSU(3), mathrmG2 or mathrmSU(4), where mathrmSU(2) corresponds to the open stratum, which is generically non-empty. We also determine the rank stratification of a larger generalized distribution calD which turns out to be integrable in the case of compactifications down to mathrmAdS3.




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