Geometry of Killing spinors in neutral signature

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/18/185012MaRDI QIDQ3454686zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Masato Nozawa, Dietmar Klemm

Publication date 26 November 2015

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02710

zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravitydifferential and algebraic geometrysupergravity modelsseperstring vacua

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: We classify the supersymmetric solutions of minimal $N=2$ gauged supergravity in four dimensions with neutral signature. They are distinguished according to the sign of the cosmological constant and whether the vector field constructed as a bilinear of the Killing spinor is null or non-null. In neutral signature the bilinear vector field can be spacelike, which is a new feature not arising in Lorentzian signature. In the $Lambda<0$ non-null case, the canonical form of the metric is described by a fibration over a three-dimensional base space that has $extU(1)$ holonomy with torsion. We find that a generalized monopole equation determines the twist of the bilinear Killing field, which is reminiscent of an Einstein-Weyl structure. If, moreover, the electromagnetic field strength is self-dual, one gets the Kleinian signature analogue of the Przanowski-Tod class of metrics, namely a pseudo-hermitian spacetime determined by solutions of the continuous Toda equation, conformal to a scalar-flat pseudo-K"ahler manifold, and admitting in addition a charged conformal Killing spinor. In the $Lambda<0$ null case, the supersymmetric solutions define an integrable null K"ahler structure. In the $Lambda>0$ non-null case, the manifold is a fibration over a Lorentzian Gauduchon-Tod base space. Finally, in the $Lambda>0$ null class, the metric is contained in the Kundt family, and it turns out that the holonomy is reduced to $mSim(1)imesmSim(1)$. There appear no self-dual solutions in the null class for either sign of the cosmological constant.

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