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The Embedding of Superstring Backgrounds in Einstein Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

A theorem of differential geometry is employed to locally embed a wide class of superstring backgrounds that admit a covariantly constant null Killing vector field in eleven-dimensional, Ricci-flat spaces. Included in this class are exact type IIB superstring backgrounds with non-trivial Ramond-Ramond fields and a class of supersymmetric string waves. The embedding spaces represent exact solutions to eleven-dimensional, vacuum Einstein gravity. A solution of eleven-dimensional supergravity is also embedded in a twelve--dimensional, Ricci-flat space.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9907095,
  title  = {The Embedding of Superstring Backgrounds in Einstein Gravity},
  author = {James E. Lidsey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9907095},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages, Latex source