Domain walls in massive supergravities
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Author(s)
Cowdall, PM
Lu, H
Pope, CN
Stelle, KS
Townsend, PK
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We show how toroidally compactified eleven-dimensional supergravity can be consistently truncated to yield a variety of maximally supersymmetric massive supergravities in space-time dimensions D ⩽ 8. The mass terms arise as a consequence of making a more general ansatz than that in usual Kaluza-Klein dimensional reduction, in which one or more axions are given an additional linear dependence on one of the compactification coordinates. The lower-dimensional theories are nevertheless consistent truncations of eleven-dimensional supergravity. Owing to the fact that the generalised reduction commutes neither with U-duality nor with ordinary dimensional reduction, many different massive theories can result. The simplest examples arise when just a single axion has the additional linear coordinate dependence. We find five inequivalent such theories in D = 7, and 71 inequivalent ones in D = 4. The massive theories admit no maximally symmetric vacuum solution, but they do admit (D - 2)-brane solutions, i.e. domain walls, which preserve half the supersymmetry. We present examples of these solutions, and their oxidations to D = 11. Some of the latter are new solutions of D = 11 supergravity.
Date Issued
1997-02-17
Date Acceptance
1996-10-29
Citation
Nuclear Physics B, 1997, 486 (1-2), pp.49-76
ISSN
0550-3213
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
49
End Page
76
Journal / Book Title
Nuclear Physics B
Volume
486
Issue
1-2
Copyright Statement
© 1997 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
BLACK-HOLE
DUALITY
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
1998-05-19