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N=31, D=11

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We show that eleven-dimensional supergravity backgrounds with thirty one supersymmetries, N=31, admit an additional Killing spinor and so they are locally isometric to maximally supersymmetric ones. This rules out the existence of simply connected eleven-dimensional supergravity preons. We also show that N=15 solutions of type I supergravities are locally isometric to Minkowski spacetime.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0610331,
  title  = {N=31, D=11},
  author = {U. Gran and J. Gutowski and G. Papadopoulos and D. Roest},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0610331},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages