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On new maximal supergravity and its BPS domain-walls

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-17 v4

Abstract

We revise the SU(3)-invariant sector of N=8\mathcal{N}=8 supergravity with dyonic SO(8) gaugings. By using the embedding tensor formalism, analytic expressions for the scalar potential, superpotential(s) and fermion mass terms are obtained as a function of the electromagnetic phase ω\omega and the scalars in the theory. Equipped with these results, we explore non-supersymmetric AdS critical points at ω0\omega \neq 0 for which perturbative stability could not be analysed before. The ω\omega-dependent superpotential is then used to derive first-order flow equations and obtain new BPS domain-wall solutions at ω0\omega \neq 0. We numerically look at steepest-descent paths motivated by the (conjectured) RG flows.

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@article{arxiv.1311.0785,
  title  = {On new maximal supergravity and its BPS domain-walls},
  author = {Adolfo Guarino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.0785},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

40 pages (30 pages + appendices), 3 tables, 6 figures. v2: References added and discussion in section 4.2 clarified. v3: References added, published version. v4: Fixed typos

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