Half-BPS supergravity solutions and superalgebras
Oct, 2008
76 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 12 (2008) 047
e-Print:
- 0810.1484 [hep-th]
Report number:
- UCLA-08-TEP-17,
- LAPTH-1268-08
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We establish a correspondence between certain Lie superalgebras with 16 fermionic generators, and half-BPS solutions to supergravities with 32 supersymmetries. Three cases are discussed. For Type IIB supergravity, we relate semi-simple Lie superalgebras H with 16 fermionic generators which are subalgebras of PSU(2,2|4), to families of half-BPS solutions which are invariant under H, and locally asymptotic to AdS_5 x S^5. Similarly, for M-theory, we relate semi-simple Lie superalgebras H with 16 fermionic generators which are subalgebras of OSp(8^*|4) or OSp(8|4,R) to families of half-BPS solutions which are invariant under H, and locally asymptotic to AdS_7 x S^4 or AdS_4 x S^7 respectively. Possible enhancements to more than 16 supersymmetries, such as 24, are also analyzed. The classification of semi-simple subalgebras of PSU(2,2|4), OSp(8^*|4), and OSp(8|4,R) derived in this paper, leads us to conjecture the existence of various new families of half-BPS solutions to Type IIB supergravity and M-theory.- supersymmetry: algebra
- supergravity
- M-theory
- dimension: 10
- dimension: 11
- field equations: solution
- soliton: BPS
- operator: algebra
- algebra: OSp(8|4)
- algebra: Lie
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