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Supergravities with Minkowski × sphere vacua

Johannes Kerimo1, Hong Lü1, Christopher N. Pope1 and James T. Liu2

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Recently the authors have introduced a new gauged supergravity theory with a positive definite potential in D = 6, obtained through a generalised Kaluza-Klein reduction from D = 7. Of particular interest is the fact that this theory admits certain Minkowski × Sphere vacua. In this paper we extend the previous results by constructing gauged supergravities with positive definitive potentials in diverse dimensions, together with their vacuum solutions. In addition, we prove the supersymmetry of the generalised reduction ansatz. We obtain a supersymmetric solution with no form-field fluxes in the new gauged theory in D = 9. This solution may be lifted to D = 10, where it acquires an interpretation as a time-dependent supersymmetric cosmological solution supported purely by the dilaton. A further uplift to D = 11 yields a solution describing a pp-wave.


Keywords

M-Theory

p-branes

Superstring Vacua

Supergravity Models

 

E-print Number: hep-th/0402223

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PACS

04.65.+e Supergravity

11.25.Yb M theory

04.50.-h Higher-dimensional gravity and other theories of gravity

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

11.25.Wx String and brane phenomenology

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 10 (October 2004)

Received 2 August 2004, accepted for publication 14 October 2004

Published 12 November 2004



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