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On parallelisable NS-NS backgrounds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v4 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We classify non-dilatonic NS-NS type II supergravity backgrounds admitting a consistent absolute parallelism. They are all given by parallelised Lie groups admitting scalar flat bi-invariant lorentzian metrics. There are seven different classes, some of them containing moduli. For each class we determine the amount of supersymmetry which is preserved: there are examples with 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 28 and 32 supersymmetries.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0305079,
  title  = {On parallelisable NS-NS backgrounds},
  author = {José Figueroa-O'Farrill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0305079},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

14 pages (v2: corrected comments about the dilaton; v3: corrected the list of solutions after properly taking into account the dilaton equation; v4: added one reference)