Residual Supersymmetry of Compactified D=10 Supergravity

May, 1986
27 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 283 (1987) 165
  • Published: 1987
Report number:
  • NIKHEF-H-86-15

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The conditions for residual supersymmetry in compactified ten-dimensional supergravity theories are investigated, including the effect of a non-constant “warp factor”. The analysis is based on on-shell transformation laws which implies that certain linear combinations of classical field equations must be satisfied. The conditions for supersymmetry are, in general, not very restrictive. When, in addition, one assumes the validity of Bianchi identities, two independent contractions of the Einstein equation are implied. These equations exclude d = 4 de Sitter space; for compactifications to d = 4 Minkowski space they only allow purely metric Ricci-flat field configurations with constant warp factor.
  • SUPERGRAVITY
  • FIELD THEORY: TEN-DIMENSIONAL
  • FIELD THEORY: compactification
  • SUPERSYMMETRY: TRANSFORMATION
  • Einstein equation
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: YANG-MILLS