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Domain Walls, Hitchin's Flow Equations and G_2-Manifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-06 v2

Abstract

We construct BPS domain wall solutions of the effective action of type-IIA string theory compactified on a half-flat six-manifold. The flow equations for the vector and hypermultiplet scalars are shown to be equivalent to Hitchin's flow equations, implying that our domain walls can be lifted to solutions of ten-dimensional type-IIA supergravity. They take the form R^{1,2} x Y_7, where Y_7 is a G_2-holonomy manifold with boundaries.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0407198,
  title  = {Domain Walls, Hitchin's Flow Equations and G_2-Manifolds},
  author = {Christoph Mayer and Thomas Mohaupt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0407198},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

18 pages, v2: minor improvements in presentation, added two references