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Supersymmetry and spin structures

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We construct examples of isometric M-theory backgrounds which preserve a different amount of supersymmetry depending on the choice of spin structure. These examples are of the form AdS_4 x L, where L is a seven-dimensional lens space whose fundamental group is cyclic of order 4k.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0506229,
  title  = {Supersymmetry and spin structures},
  author = {José Figueroa-O'Farrill and Sunil Gadhia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0506229},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages