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We construct new classes of supersymmetric $AdS_2\times \Sigma$ solutions, where $\Sigma=\Sigma(n_N,n_S)$ is a spindle. Such solutions can arise as the near horizon limit of supersymmetric, accelerating black holes. The solutions are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Igal Arav , Jerome P. Gauntlett , Jaeha Park , Matthew M. Roberts , Christopher Rosen

We show how the Killing spinors of some maximally supersymmetric supergravity solutions whose metrics describe symmetric spacetimes (including $AdS,AdS\times S$ and H$pp$-waves) can be easily constructed using purely geometrical and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Alonso-Alberca , E. Lozano-Tellechea , T. Ortin

We review some aspects of the spinorial geometry approach to the classification of supersymmetric solutions of supergravity theories. In particular, we explain how spinorial geometry can be used to express the Killing spinor equations in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 U. Gran , J. Gutowski , G. Papadopoulos , D. Roest

Killing spinors of N=2, D=4 supergravity are examined using the spinorial geometry method, in which spinors are written as differential forms. By making use of methods developed in hep-th/0606049 to analyze preons in type IIB supergravity,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jai Grover , Jan B. Gutowski , Wafic A. Sabra

We determine the form of all timelike supersymmetric solutions of all N greater or equal than 2, d=4 ungauged supergravities, for N less or equal than 4 coupled to vector supermultiplets, using the $Usp(n+1,n+1)-symmetric formulation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-17 P. Meessen , T. Ortin , S. Vaula

Relying on the method of spinorial geometry, purely bosonic supersymmetric solutions in N=2, five-dimensional supergravity theories coupled to vector multiplets in all space-time signatures are found. Explicit examples of some new solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 W. A. Sabra

We propose a way to classify all supersymmetric configurations of D=11 supergravity using the G-structures defined by the Killing spinors. We show that the most general bosonic geometries admitting a Killing spinor have at least a local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Jerome P. Gauntlett , Stathis Pakis

Extreme near-horizon geometries in D=11 supergravity preserving four supersymmetries are classified. It is shown that the Killing spinors fall into three possible orbits, corresponding to pairs of spinors defined on the spatial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 D. Farotti , J. Gutowski

Supersymmetric warped product dS4 solutions in D=11 supergravity are classified. The Killing spinor is associated with two possible stabilizer groups, SU(3) and G_2. We show that there are no solutions to the Killing Spinor equations in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 M. Di Gioia , J. Gutowski

We consider $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on four manifolds admitting an isometry. Generalized Killing spinor equations are derived from the consistency of supersymmetry algebrae and solved in the case of four manifolds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-28 Aditya Bawane , Giulio Bonelli , Massimiliano Ronzani , Alessandro Tanzini

We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a supersymmetric field configuration in the N=(1,0) U(1) or SU(2) gauged supergravities in six dimensions, and impose the field equations on this general ansatz. It is found that any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Cariglia , Oisin A. P. Mac Conamhna

Killing spinor identities relate components of equations of motion to each other for supersymmetric backgrounds. The only input required is the field content and the supersymmetry transformations of the fields, as long as an on-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-24 Federico Bonetti , Dietmar Klemm , Wafic A. Sabra , Peter Sloane

We present the gauged N=4 (half-maximal) supergravities in four and five spacetime dimensions coupled to an arbitrary number of vector multiplets. The gaugings are parameterized by a set of appropriately constrained constant tensors, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-13 Jonas Schon , Martin Weidner

Under general assumptions, we show that a gravitational theory in d+1 dimensions admitting an AdS solution can be reduced to a d-dimensional theory containing a Lifshitz solution with dynamical exponent z=2. Working in a d=4, N=2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-18 Davide Cassani , Anton F. Faedo

We construct supersymmetric solutions of three dimensional N = (1,1) General Massive Supergravity (GMG). Solutions with a null Killing vector are in general pp-waves. We identify those that appear at critical points of the model some of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-06 N. S. Deger , Z. Nazari , O. Sarioglu

We determine the necessary and sufficient conditions on the metric and the four-form for the most general bosonic supersymmetric configurations of D=11 supergravity which admit a null Killing spinor i.e. a Killing spinor which can be used…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Jerome P. Gauntlett , Jan B. Gutowski , Stathis Pakis

We first make a Killing spinor analysis for a general three-dimensional off-shell $N=(2,0)$ supergravity and find conditions for a bosonic background to preserve some supersymmetry . We then consider a particular model, namely $N=(2,0)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Nihat Sadik Deger , George Moutsopoulos

This is the 5th article in the collection of reviews "Exact results on N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories", ed. J. Teschner. We review the supersymmetric localization of $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories on curved backgrounds in four dimensions using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-06 Vasily Pestun

The seven and nine dimensional geometries associated with certain classes of supersymmetric $AdS_3$ and $AdS_2$ solutions of type IIB and D=11 supergravity, respectively, have many similarities with Sasaki-Einstein geometry. We further…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jerome P. Gauntlett , Nakwoo Kim

Pseudo-supersymmetric solutions of minimal $N=2$, $D=4$ de Sitter supergravity are classified using spinorial geometry techniques. We find three classes of solutions. The first class of solution consists of geometries which are fibrations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-24 J. B. Gutowski , W. A. Sabra