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Magnetic Cosmic Strings of N=1, D=4 Supergravity with Cosmological Constant

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-09-07 v2

Abstract

We find a new class of cosmic string solutions with non-vanishing magnetic flux of N=1\mathcal{N}=1, D=4 supergravity with a cosmological constant and coupled to any number of Maxwell and scalar multiplets. We show that these magnetic cosmic string solutions preserve 1/2 of supersymmetry. We give an explicit example of such a solution for which the complex scalars are constant and the spacetime is smooth with topology R1,1×S2R^{1,1}\times S^2. Two more examples are explored for which a complex scalar field takes values in CP1\mathbb{C} P^1 and in SL(2,R)/U(1)SL(2,\mathbb{R})/U(1).

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0102165,
  title  = {Magnetic Cosmic Strings of N=1, D=4 Supergravity with Cosmological Constant},
  author = {J. Gutowski and G. Papadopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0102165},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

13 pages, phyzzx; typos corrected. To appear in Phys. Lett. B