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Classification of IIB backgrounds with 28 supersymmetries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-01-22 v2

Abstract

We show that all IIB backgrounds with strictly 28 supersymmetries are locally isometric to the plane wave solution of arXiv:hep-th/0206195. Moreover, we demonstrate that all solutions with more than 26 supersymmetries and only 5-form flux are maximally supersymmetric. The N=28 plane wave solution is a superposition of the maximally supersymmetric IIB plane wave with a heterotic string solution. We investigate the propagation of strings in this background, find the spectrum and give the string light-cone Hamiltonian.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0902.3642,
  title  = {Classification of IIB backgrounds with 28 supersymmetries},
  author = {U. Gran and J. Gutowski and G. Papadopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3642},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

30 pages, typos corrected

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