3-Sasakian Manifolds
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1 Differential Geometry
Abstract
This is an expository paper describing the geometry of certain Sasakian-Einstein manifolds. Such manifolds have recently become of interest due to Maldacena's AdS/CFT conjecture. They describe near-horizon geometries of branes at conical singularities.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9810250,
title = {3-Sasakian Manifolds},
author = {Charles P. Boyer and Krzysztof Galicki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9810250},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
59 pages, to appear in Essays on Einstein Manifolds, M. Wang and C. LeBrun, eds