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Supersymmetric backgrounds from generalized Calabi-Yau manifolds

Mariana Graña1,2, Ruben Minasian1, Michela Petrini1,3 and Alessandro Tomasiello1

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We show that the supersymmetry transformations for type II string theories on six-manifolds can be written as differential conditions on a pair of pure spinors, the exponentiated Kähler form eiJ and the holomorphic form Ω. The equations are explicitly symmetric under exchange of the two pure spinors and a choice of even or odd-rank RR field. This is mirror symmetry for manifolds with torsion. Moreover, RR fluxes affect only one of the two equations: eiJ is closed under the action of the twisted exterior derivative in IIA theory, and similarly Ω is closed in IIB. Modulo a different action of the B–field, this means that supersymmetric SU(3)-structure manifolds are all generalized Calabi-Yau manifolds, as defined by Hitchin. An equivalent, and somewhat more conventional, description is given as a set of relations between the components of intrinsic torsions modified by the NS flux and the Clifford products of RR fluxes with pure spinors, allowing for a classification of type II supersymmetric vacua on six-manifolds. We find in particular that supersymmetric six-manifolds are always complex for IIB backgrounds while they are twisted symplectic for IIA.


Keywords

Differential and Algebraic Geometry

Superstring Vacua

Supergravity Models

PACS

11.30.Pb Supersymmetry

11.30.Hv Flavor symmetries

11.30.Ly Other internal and higher symmetries

11.25.-w Strings and branes

04.65.+e Supergravity

11.27.+d Extended classical solutions; cosmic strings, domain walls, texture

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 08 (August 2004)

Received 15 July 2004, accepted for publication 23 August 2004

Published 22 September 2004



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