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Ten-dimensional origin of Minkowski vacua in ${\cal N}=8$ supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-11-28 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Maximal supergravity in four dimensions admits two inequivalent dyonic gaugings of the group SO(4)×SO(2,2)T16\mathrm{SO}(4) \times \mathrm{SO}(2,2) \ltimes T^{16}. Both admit a Minkowski vacuum with residual SO(4)×SO(2)2\mathrm{SO}(4) \times \mathrm{SO}(2)^2 symmetry and identical spectrum. We explore these vacua and their deformations. Using exceptional field theory, we show that the four-dimensional theories arise as consistent truncations from IIA and IIB supergravity, respectively, around a Mink4×S3×H3\mathrm{Mink}_4\times S^3\times H^3 geometry. The IIA/IIB truncations are efficiently related by an outer automorphism of SL(4)E7(7)\mathrm{SL}(4) \subset \mathrm{E}_{7(7)}. As an application, we give an explicit uplift of the moduli of the vacua into a 4-parameter family of ten-dimensional solutions.

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@article{arxiv.1710.02163,
  title  = {Ten-dimensional origin of Minkowski vacua in ${\cal N}=8$ supergravity},
  author = {Emanuel Malek and Henning Samtleben},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.02163},
  year   = {2017}
}