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Exact solutions to complex Type IIB supergravity for complex superalgebra $F(4)$ and its real forms

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-08-22 v1

Abstract

We construct the general local solutions to complexified Type IIB supergravity which are invariant under the complexified Lie superalgebra F(4)F(4). The geometry is a product of complexified maximally symmetric spaces M6C\mathcal M_{6 {\mathbb C}} and M2C\mathcal M_{2 {\mathbb C}} warped over a complexified surface ΣC\Sigma_{\mathbb C}. We classify the reality conditions that may be imposed consistently to obtain real form solutions within real forms of complex Type IIB supergravity. The latter comprise standard Type IIB, Type IIB^\star and IIB^\prime, as well as theories with 33, 55, 77 and 99 time-like directions. Our classification of real solutions is consistent with and exhausts the real forms of F(4)F(4), whose classification we confirm by elementary methods. The geometry of each real form solution is a product of real maximally symmetric spaces M6\mathcal M_6 and M2\mathcal M_2 warped over a Riemann surface Σ\Sigma, with various signatures. The real solutions include, among others, known AdS6×S2×ΣAdS_6 \times S^2 \times \Sigma and AdS2×S6×ΣAdS_2 \times S^6 \times \Sigma solutions to standard Type IIB as well as new solutions of the form dS1,5×S2×ΣdS_{1,5}\times S^2 \times \Sigma in Type IIB^\star. There are no real forms of the complex solutions with so(7;R)so(3;R)\mathfrak{so} (7;{\mathbb R}) \oplus \mathfrak{so} (3;{\mathbb R}) symmetry. We discuss the relevance of the complex solutions, and of analytic continuations from dS1,5×S2×ΣdS_{1,5}\times S^2\times\Sigma to S6×S2×ΣS^6\times S^2\times\Sigma within complex Type IIB, in connection with holography for the polarized IKKT model.

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@article{arxiv.2508.14959,
  title  = {Exact solutions to complex Type IIB supergravity for complex superalgebra $F(4)$ and its real forms},
  author = {Eric D'Hoker and Michael Gutperle and Christoph F. Uhlemann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.14959},
  year   = {2025}
}

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75 pages

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