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Adjoint orbits, generalised parallelisable spaces and consistent truncations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-10-11 v2

Abstract

The aim of this note is to present some new explicit examples of O(d,d)O(d,d)-generalised Leibniz parallelisable spaces arising as the normal bundles of adjoint orbits O\mathcal{O} of some semi-simple Lie group GG. Using this construction, an explicit expression for a generalised frame is given in the case when the orbits are regular, but subtleties arise when they become degenerate. In the case of regular orbits, the resulting space is a globally flat fiber bundle over O\mathcal{O} which can be made compact, allowing for a generalised Scherk-Schwartz reduction. This means these spaces should admit consistent supergravity truncations. For degenerate orbits, the procedure hinges on the existence of a suitable metric, allowing for a consistent normalisation of the generalised frame.

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@article{arxiv.1711.04711,
  title  = {Adjoint orbits, generalised parallelisable spaces and consistent truncations},
  author = {Louise Anderson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.04711},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

10 pages; typos corrected, references added

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