Grassmannians, calibrations and 5-brane intersections

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/14/304zbMATH Open1055.53034arXivhep-th/9811034OpenAlexW2020526275MaRDI QIDQ4457593FDOQ4457593

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Publication date: 25 March 2004

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

Abstract: We present a geometric construction of a new class of hyper-Kahler manifolds with torsion. This involves the superposition of the four-dimensional hyper-Kahler geometry with torsion associated with the NS-5-brane along quaternionic planes in quaternionic k-space, $$. We find the moduli space of these geometries and show that it can be constructed using the bundle space of the canonical quaternionic line bundle over a quaternionic projective space. We also investigate several special cases which are associated with certain classes of quaternionic planes in $$. We then show that the eight-dimensional geometries we have found can be constructed using quaternionic calibrations. We generalize our construction to superpose the same four-dimensional hyper-Kahler geometry with torsion along complex planes in $$. We find that the resulting geometry is Kahler with torsion. The moduli space of these geometries is also investigated. In addition, the applications of these new geometries to M-theory and sigma models are presented. In particular, we find new solutions of IIA supergravity with the interpretation of intersecting NS-5-branes at Sp(2)-angles on a string and show that they preserve 3/32, 1/8, 5/32 and 3/16 of supersymmetry. We also show that two-dimensional sigma models with target spaces the above manifolds have (p,q) extended supersymmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9811034

zbMATH Keywords

calibrationshyper-Kähler manifoldsNS-5-brane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26)

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