Supersymmetry, holonomy and Kundt spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/25/19/195007zbMATH Open1151.83035arXiv0807.4542OpenAlexW1966100124MaRDI QIDQ3531199FDOQ3531199

Authors: Johan Brännlund, Alan Coley, Sigbjørn Hervik 

Publication date: 21 October 2008

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

Abstract: Supersymmetric solutions of supergravity theories, and consequently metrics with special holonomy, have played an important role in the development of string theory. We describe how a Lorentzian manifold is either completely reducible, and thus essentially known, or not completely reducible so that there exists a degenerate holonomy invariant lightlike subspace and consequently admits a covariantly constant or a recurrent null vector and belongs to the higher-dimensional Kundt class of spacetimes. These Kundt spacetimes (which contain the vanishing and constant curvature invariant spacetimes as special cases) are genuinely Lorentzian and have a number of interesting and unusual properties, which may lead to novel and fundamental physics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4542

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supergravity (83E50) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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