De-Higgsing in eleven-dimensional supergravity on the squashed S 7

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AD1A1CMaRDI QIDQ6150255zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. E. W. Nilsson, Christopher N. Pope

Publication date 6 February 2024

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03842

zbMATH Keywords

de-HiggsingKaluza-Kleinsquashed \(S^7\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX) Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX)

Abstract: In this paper we construct the subset of modes on $S^7$ that are relevant in the compactification of eleven-dimensional supergravity on a squashed $S^7$ when restricted to the sector that comprises singlets under the $Sp(1)imesSp(2)$ isometry of the squashed sphere. Some of the properties of these modes, connected to the transition from the round $S^7$ to the squashed $S^7$, are analysed in detail. Special features of the Rarita-Schwinger operator, described in earlier work by Buchdahl, are explained and related to properties of the squashed $S^7$ operator spectrum obtained in previous work by the authors. We then discuss how the singlet modes give rise to supermultiplets in the left-squashed case, the phenomenon of de-Higgsing, and what happens to the AdS${}_4$ fields in these supermultiplets under an orientation reversal (``skew-whiffing) of the squashed $S^7$. Finally, we consider the possible choices of boundary conditions that appear for some of these fields in AdS${}_4$ in the case of the right-squashed non-supersymmetric compactification, and how these choices may affect the stability of the gravity theory.

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