Supersymmetric Kundt four manifolds and their spinorial evolution flows
Abstract
We investigate the differential geometry and topology of four-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds equipped with a real Killing spinor , where is defined as a section of a bundle of irreducible real Clifford modules satisfying the Killing spinor equation with non-zero real constant. Such triples are precisely the supersymmetric configurations of minimal four-dimensional supergravity and necessarily belong to the class Kundt of space-times, hence we refer to them as supersymmetric Kundt configurations. We characterize a class of Lorentzian metrics on , where is a two-dimensional oriented manifold, to which every supersymmetric Kundt configuration is locally isometric, proving that must be an elementary hyperbolic Riemann surface when equipped with the natural induced metric. This yields a class of space-times that vastly generalize the Siklos class of space-times describing gravitational waves in AdS. Furthermore, we study the Cauchy problem posed by a real Killing spinor and we prove that the corresponding evolution problem is equivalent to a system of differential flow equations, the real Killing spinorial flow equations, for a family of functions and coframes on any Cauchy hypersurface . Using this formulation, we prove that the evolution flow defined by a real Killing spinor preserves the Hamiltonian and momentum constraints of the Einstein equation with negative curvature and is therefore compatible with the latter. Moreover, we explicitly construct all left-invariant evolution flows defined by a Killing spinor on a simply connected three-dimensional Lie group, classifying along the way all solutions to the corresponding constraint equations, some of which also satisfy the constraint equations associated to the Einstein condition.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2209.04396,
title = {Supersymmetric Kundt four manifolds and their spinorial evolution flows},
author = {Ángel Murcia and C. S. Shahbazi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.04396},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
28 pages, 2 tables. Minor text fixes. Matches published version