Supersymmetry and spin structures

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/22/20/L01MaRDI QIDQ5714464zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors José Figueroa-O'Farrill, Sunil Gadhia

Publication date 3 January 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0506229

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We construct examples of isometric M-theory backgrounds which preserve a different amount of supersymmetry depending on the choice of spin structure. These examples are of the form AdS_4 x L, where L is a seven-dimensional lens space whose fundamental group is cyclic of order 4k.

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