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Central Extension of Extended Supergravities in Diverse Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v2

Abstract

We generalize central-charge relations and differential identities of N=2 Special Geometry to N extended supergravity in any dimension 4 \leq D <10, and p-extended objects. We study the extremization of the ADM mass per unit of p-volume of BPS extended objects. Runaway solutions for a ``dilaton'' degree of freedom leading to a vanishing result are interpreted as BPS extremal states having vanishing Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9608015,
  title  = {Central Extension of Extended Supergravities in Diverse Dimensions},
  author = {L. Andrianopoli and R. D'Auria and S. Ferrara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9608015},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

13 pages, LaTeX, no figures. This is the last version which will appear in International Journal of Modern Physics A