Supersymmetry, holonomy and Kundt spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/25/19/195007MaRDI QIDQ3531199zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Johan Brännlund, Alan Coley, Sigbjørn Hervik

Publication date 21 October 2008

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

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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