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Supersymmetric Kundt four manifolds and their spinorial evolution flows

Differential Geometry 2024-02-20 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate the differential geometry and topology of four-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds (M,g)(M,g) equipped with a real Killing spinor ε\varepsilon, where ε\varepsilon 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 (M,g,ε)(M,g,\varepsilon) 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 R2×X\mathbb{R}^2\times X, where XX is a two-dimensional oriented manifold, to which every supersymmetric Kundt configuration is locally isometric, proving that XX 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 AdS4_4. 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 ΣM\Sigma\subset M. 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.

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@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

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