Published December 7, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

A pp-wave with 26 supercharges

  • 1. New High Energy Theory Center, Rutgers University, 126 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ (United States)

Description

A pp-wave solution to 11-dimensional supergravity is given with precisely 26 supercharges. Its uniqueness and the absence of 11-dimensional pp-waves which preserve (precisely) 28 or 30 supercharges is discussed. Compactification on a spacelike circle gives a IIA configuration with all 26 of the supercharges. For this compactification, the D0 brane charge does not appear in the supersymmetry algebra. Indeed, the 26 supercharge IIA background does not admit any supersymmetric D-branes. In the appendix, a 28 supercharge IIB pp-wave is presented along with its supersymmetry algebra

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/19/5935/q22304.pdf or at the Web site for the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity (ISSN 1361-6382) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
19
Journal Issue
23
Journal Page Range
p. 5935-5949
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
34024696
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ALGEBRA; COMPACTIFICATION; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; P WAVES; SUPERGRAVITY; SUPERSYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICS; PARTIAL WAVES; SYMMETRY; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES