Geometry of Killing spinors in neutral signature
Abstract
We classify the supersymmetric solutions of minimal gauged supergravity in four dimensions with neutral signature. They are distinguished according to the sign of the cosmological constant and whether the vector field constructed as a bilinear of the Killing spinor is null or non-null. In neutral signature the bilinear vector field can be spacelike, which is a new feature not arising in Lorentzian signature. In the non-null case, the canonical form of the metric is described by a fibration over a three-dimensional base space that has holonomy with torsion. We find that a generalized monopole equation determines the twist of the bilinear Killing field, which is reminiscent of an Einstein-Weyl structure. If, moreover, the electromagnetic field strength is self-dual, one gets the Kleinian signature analogue of the Przanowski-Tod class of metrics, namely a pseudo-hermitian spacetime determined by solutions of the continuous Toda equation, conformal to a scalar-flat pseudo-K\"ahler manifold, and admitting in addition a charged conformal Killing spinor. In the null case, the supersymmetric solutions define an integrable null K\"ahler structure. In the non-null case, the manifold is a fibration over a Lorentzian Gauduchon-Tod base space. Finally, in the null class, the metric is contained in the Kundt family, and it turns out that the holonomy is reduced to . There appear no self-dual solutions in the null class for either sign of the cosmological constant.
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@article{arxiv.1504.02710,
title = {Geometry of Killing spinors in neutral signature},
author = {Dietmar Klemm and Masato Nozawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.02710},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
40 pages, uses JHEP3.cls. v2: Appendix and ref. added. v3: Published version