Published July 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Gauduchon-Tod structures, Sim holonomy and De Sitter supergravity

  • 1. DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Department of Mathematics, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS (United Kingdom)
  • 3. Departamento de Fisica e Centro de Fisica do Porto, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 687, 4169-007 Porto (Portugal)
  • 4. Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, C-XVI, Cantoblanco, E-28670 Madrid (Spain)
  • 5. Centre for Advanced Mathematical Sciences and Physics Department, American University of Beirut, P.O. Box 11-0236, Riad El-Solh 1107-2020, Beirut (Lebanon)

Description

Solutions of five-dimensional De Sitter supergravity admitting Killing spinors are considered, using spinorial geometry techniques. It is shown that the 'null' solutions are defined in terms of a one parameter family of 3-dimensional constrained Einstein-Weyl spaces called Gauduchon-Tod structures. They admit a geodesic, expansion-free, twist-free and shear-free null vector field and therefore are a particular type of Kundt geometry. When the Gauduchon-Tod structure reduces to the 3-sphere, the null vector becomes recurrent, and therefore the holonomy is contained in Sim(3), the maximal proper subgroup of the Lorentz group SO(4,1). For these geometries, all scalar invariants built from the curvature are constant. Explicit examples are discussed.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/07/069

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
7
Journal Issue
2009
Journal Page Range
p. 069
ISSN
1126-6708