Geometry of all supersymmetric four-dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ supergravity backgrounds
Abstract
We solve the Killing spinor equations of supergravity, with four supercharges, coupled to any number of vector and scalar multiplets in all cases. We find that backgrounds with N=1 supersymmetry admit a null, integrable, Killing vector field. There are two classes of N=2 backgrounds. The spacetime in the first class admits a parallel null vector field and so it is a pp-wave. The spacetime of the other class admits three Killing vector fields, and a vector field that commutes with the three Killing directions. These backgrounds are of cohomogeneity one with homogenous sections either or and have an interpretation as domain walls. The N=3 backgrounds are locally maximally supersymmetric. There are N=3 backgrounds which arise as discrete identifications of maximally supersymmetric ones. The maximally supersymmetric backgrounds are locally isometric to either or .
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@article{arxiv.0802.1779,
title = {Geometry of all supersymmetric four-dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ supergravity backgrounds},
author = {U. Gran and J. Gutowski and G. Papadopoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.1779},
year = {2009}
}
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15 pages; minor changes, references added, published version