Published June 21, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Holonomy from wrapped branes

  • 1. Institut de Physique, Universite de Neuchatel, Breguet 1, CH-2000 Neuchatel (Switzerland)
  • 2. Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Patras, 26110 Patras (Greece)

Description

Compactifications of M-theory on manifolds with reduced holonomy arise as the local 11-dimensional description of D6-branes wrapped on supersymmetric cycles in manifolds of lower dimension with a different holonomy group. Whenever the isometry group SU(2) is present, eight-dimensional gauged supergravity is a natural arena for such investigations. In this paper, we use this approach and review the 11-dimensional description of D6-branes wrapped on coassociative 4-cycles, on deformed 3-cycles inside Calabi-Yau threefolds and on Kaehler 4-cycles

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/20/S501/q31216.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
20
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. S501-S507
ISSN
0264-9381