Kaluza-Klein reductions of maximally supersymmetric five-dimensional lorentzian spacetimes

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC9108zbMATH Open1515.83266arXiv2207.07430WikidataQ114096894 ScholiaQ114096894MaRDI QIDQ6405079FDOQ6405079

Authors: José Figueroa-O'Farrill, Guido Franchetti 

Publication date: 15 July 2022

Abstract: A recent study of filtered deformations of (graded subalgebras of) the minimal five-dimensional Poincar'e superalgebra resulted in two classes of maximally supersymmetric spacetimes. One class are the well-known maximally supersymmetric backgrounds of minimal five-dimensional supergravity, whereas the other class does not seem to be related to supergravity. This paper is a study of the Kaluza--Klein reductions to four dimensions of this latter class of maximally supersymmetric spacetimes. We classify the lorentzian and riemannian Kaluza--Klein reductions of these backgrounds, determine the fraction of the supersymmetry preserved under the reduction and in most cases determine explicitly the geometry of the four-dimensional quotient. Among the many supersymmetric quotients found, we highlight a number of novel non-homogeneous four-dimensional lorentzian spacetimes admitting $N=1$ supersymmetry, whose supersymmetry algebra is not a filtered deformation of any graded subalgebra of the four-dimensional $N=1$ Poincar'e superalgebra. Any of these four-dimensional lorentzian spacetimes may serve as the arena for the construction of new rigidly supersymmetric field theories.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Supergravity (83E50) Dimensional compactification in quantum field theory (81T33)

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