The spinorial geometry of supersymmetric IIB backgrounds

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/22/12/010MaRDI QIDQ5314995zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ulf Gran, George Papadopoulos, Jan B. Gutowski

Publication date 5 September 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0501177

Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: We investigate the Killing spinor equations of IIB supergravity for one Killing spinor. We show that there are three types of orbits of Spin(9,1) in the space of Weyl spinors which give rise to Killing spinors with stability subgroups

,

and

G_{2}

. We solve the Killing spinor equations for the

and

invariant spinors, give the fluxes in terms of the geometry and determine the conditions on the spacetime geometry imposed by supersymmetry. In both cases, the spacetime admits a null, self-parallel, Killing vector field. We also apply our formalism to examine a class of

backgrounds which admit one and two pure spinors as Killing spinors and investigate the geometry of the spacetimes.

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