On M-theory fourfold vacua with higher curvature terms

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.02.047zbMATH Open1343.83049arXiv1408.5136OpenAlexW2084553164MaRDI QIDQ304331FDOQ304331

Matthias Weißenbacher, Tom G. Pugh, Thomas W. Grimm

Publication date: 25 August 2016

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study solutions to the eleven-dimensional supergravity action, including terms quartic and cubic in the Riemann curvature, that admit an eight-dimensional compact space. The internal background is found to be a conformally Kahler manifold with vanishing first Chern class. The metric solution, however, is non-Ricci-flat even when allowing for a conformal rescaling including the warp factor. This deviation is due to the possible non-harmonicity of the third Chern-form in the leading order Ricci-flat metric. We present a systematic derivation of the background solution by solving the Killing spinor conditions including higher curvature terms. These are translated into first-order differential equations for a globally defined real two-form and complex four-form on the fourfold. We comment on the supersymmetry properties of the described solutions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5136

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kähler manifolds (32Q15) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Supergravity (83E50) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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