Supersymmetry and the Supergravity Landscape
Abstract
In the recent times a lot of effort has been devoted to improve our knowledge about the space of string theory vacua (``the landscape'') to find statistical grounds to justify how and why the theory selects its vacuum. Particularly interesting are those vacua that preserve some supersymmetry, which are always supersymmetric solutions of some supergravity theory. After an general introduction to how the pursuit of unification has lead to the vacuum selection problem, we are going to review some recent results on the problem of finding all the supersymmetric solutions of a supergravity theory applied to the N=4,d=4 supergravity case.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0601003,
title = {Supersymmetry and the Supergravity Landscape},
author = {Tomas Ortin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0601003},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Enlarged version of the talks given at the Pomeranian Workshop on Cosmology and Fundamental Physics (Pobierowo, Poland) and the 2005 Spanish Relativity Meeting (in Oviedo, Spain). Latex 2e file, 21 pages, no figures