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Old and new vacua of 5D maximal supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-04-21 v2

Abstract

We look for critical points with U(2) residual symmetry in 5-dimensional maximally supersymmetric gauged supergravity, by varying the embedding tensor, rather than directly minimizing the scalar potential. We recover all previously known vacua and we find four new vacua, with different gauge groups and cosmological constants. We provide the first example of a maximal supergravity model in D4D \geq 4 having critical points with both positive and vanishing cosmological constant. For each vacuum we also compute the full mass spectrum. All results are analytic.

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@article{arxiv.2101.04149,
  title  = {Old and new vacua of 5D maximal supergravity},
  author = {G. Dall'Agata and G. Inverso and D. Partipilo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.04149},
  year   = {2021}
}

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29 pages, 1 figure. v2 References added