A "Periodic Table" for Supersymmetric M-Theory Compactifications
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-11-19 v1 Differential Geometry
Abstract
We develop a systematic method for classifying supersymmetric orbifold compactifications of M-theory. By restricting our attention to abelian orbifolds with low order, in the special cases where elements do not include coordinate shifts, we construct a "periodic table" of such compactifications, organized according to the orbifolding group (order up to 12) and dimension (up to 7). An intriguing connection between supersymmetric orbifolds and G2-structures is explored.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0208030,
title = {A "Periodic Table" for Supersymmetric M-Theory Compactifications},
author = {Charles F. Doran and Michael Faux},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0208030},
year = {2010}
}
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34 pages, latex