Published July 2005 | Version v1
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String and M-theory deformations of manifolds with special holonomy

Creators

  • 1. George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242 (United States)
  • 2. Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ (United Kingdom)
  • 3. DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 OWA (United Kingdom)

Description

The R4-type corrections to ten and eleven dimensional supergravity required by string and M-theory imply corrections to supersymmetric supergravity compactifications on manifolds of special holonomy, which deform the metric away from the original holonomy. Nevertheless, in many such cases, including Calabi-Yau compactifications of string theory and G2-compactifications of M-theory, it has been shown that the deformation preserves supersymmetry because of associated corrections to the supersymmetry transformation rules, Here, we consider Spin(7) compactifications in string theory and M-theory, and a class of non-compact SU(5) backgrounds in M-theory. Supersymmetry survives in all these cases too, despite the fact that the original special holonomy is perturbed into general holonomy in each case

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1126-6708/2005/i=07/a=075/jhep072005075.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/

Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://stacks.iop.org/1126-6708/2005/i=07/a=075/jhep072005075.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
DOI
10.1088/1126-6708/2005/07/075;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
2005
Journal Issue
07
Journal Page Range
p. 075
ISSN
1126-6708

INIS

Country of Publication
Italy
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36099768
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
COMPACTIFICATION; CORRECTIONS; DEFORMATION; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; MATRICES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPIN; STRING MODELS; SU-5 GROUPS; SUPERGRAVITY; SUPERSYMMETRY; TRANSFORMATIONS
Descriptors DEC
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COMPOSITE MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUARK MODEL; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES