Mariana Graña et al JHEP08(2004)046 doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/08/046
Mariana Graña1,2, Ruben Minasian1, Michela Petrini1,3 and Alessandro Tomasiello1
Show affiliationsWe 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.
11.30.Ly Other internal and higher symmetries
11.27.+d Extended classical solutions; cosmic strings, domain walls, texture
Issue 08 (August 2004)
Received 15 July 2004, accepted for publication 23 August 2004
Published 22 September 2004
Mariana Graña et al JHEP08(2004)046
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