Supersymmetric solutions with fluxes from algebraic Killing spinors

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2003.V7.N5.A2zbMATH Open1056.81057arXivhep-th/0306097OpenAlexW1981258778MaRDI QIDQ701918FDOQ701918

Authors: Chethan N. Gowdigere, Nicholas P. Warner, Dennis D. Nemeschansky 

Publication date: 14 January 2005

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

Abstract: We give a general framework for constructing supersymmetric solutions in the presence of non-trivial fluxes of tensor gauge fields. This technique involves making a general Ansatz for the metric and then defining the Killing spinors in terms of very simple projectors on the spinor fields. These projectors and, through them, the spinors, are determined algebraically in terms of the metric Ansatz. The Killing spinor equations then fix the tensor gauge fields algebraically, and, with the Bianchi identities, provide a system of equations for all the metric functions. We illustrate this by constructing an infinite family of massive flows that preserve eight supersymmetries in M-theory. This family constitutes all the radially symmetric Coulomb branch flows of the softly broken, large N scalar-fermion theory on M2-branes. We reduce the problem to the solution of a single, non-linear partial differential equation in two variables. This equation governs the flow of the fermion mass, and the function that solves it then generates the entire M-theory solution algebraically in terms of the function and its first derivatives. While the governing equation is non-linear, it has a very simple perturbation theory from which one can see how the Coulomb branch is encoded.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0306097

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

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