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On Asymmetric Orbifolds and the D=5 No-modulus Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We examine whether any type II asymmetric orbifolds have the same massless spectrum as the dimensional reduction of D=5 simple supergravity, which, besides the eleven-dimensional supergravity, is the only known supergravity above four dimensions with no moduli. We attempt to construct such models by further twisting the orbifolds which yield D=4, N=4 pure supergravity to find that, unfortunately, none of the models have that spectrum. We provide supergravity arguments explaining why this is so. As a by-product, we list all possible momentum-winding lattices that give D=4, N=4 pure supergravity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0109193,
  title  = {On Asymmetric Orbifolds and the D=5 No-modulus Supergravity},
  author = {Shun'ya Mizoguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0109193},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages

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