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Geometry of Killing spinors in neutral signature

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-09-23 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We classify the supersymmetric solutions of minimal N=2N=2 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 Λ<0\Lambda<0 non-null case, the canonical form of the metric is described by a fibration over a three-dimensional base space that has U(1)\text{U}(1) 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 Λ<0\Lambda<0 null case, the supersymmetric solutions define an integrable null K\"ahler structure. In the Λ>0\Lambda>0 non-null case, the manifold is a fibration over a Lorentzian Gauduchon-Tod base space. Finally, in the Λ>0\Lambda>0 null class, the metric is contained in the Kundt family, and it turns out that the holonomy is reduced to Sim(1)×Sim(1){\rm Sim}(1)\times{\rm Sim}(1). 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