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We develop a new framework for the study of generalized Killing spinors, where generalized Killing spinor equations, possibly with constraints, can be formulated equivalently as systems of partial differential equations for a polyform…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Vicente Cortés , Calin Lazaroiu , C. S. Shahbazi

We study 7D maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on curved manifolds that admit Killing spinors. If the manifold admits at least two Killing spinors (Sasaki-Einstein manifolds) we are able to rewrite the supersymmetric theory in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Konstantina Polydorou , Andreas Rocén , Maxim Zabzine

We study (non-renormalizable) five dimensional supersymmetric field theories. The theories are parametrized by quark masses and a gauge coupling. We derive the metric on the Coulomb branch exactly. We use stringy considerations to learn…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-15 Nathan Seiberg

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

We calculate the relevant Spencer cohomology of the minimal Poincar\'e superalgebra in 5 spacetime dimensions and use it to define Killing spinors via a connection on the spinor bundle of a 5-dimensional lorentzian spin manifold. We give a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 Andrew Beckett , José Figueroa-O'Farrill

We use a construction which we call generalized cylinders to give a new proof of the fundamental theorem of hypersurface theory. It has the advantage of being very simple and the result directly extends to semi-Riemannian manifolds and to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Christian Baer , Paul Gauduchon , Andrei Moroianu

We consider warp compactifications of M-theory on 7-manifolds in the presence of 4-form fluxes and investigate the constraints imposed by supersymmetry. As long as the 7-manifold supports only one Killing spinor we infer from the Killing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Klaus Behrndt , Claus Jeschek

We investigate the hidden symmetries of the Kerr-Newman, of the D=5 minimal gauged supergravity which admits a Killing-Maxwell system in the sense of Carter and of higher dimensional spacetimes in the presence of Killing-Yano torsion. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-18 C. Rugina

We propose methods towards a systematic determination of d dimensional curved spaces where Euclidean field theories with rigid supersymmetry can be defined. The analysis is carried out from a group theory as well as from a supergravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Kehagias , J. G. Russo

We find a class of (2+1)-dimensional spacetimes admitting Killing spinors appropriate to (2,0) adS-supergravity. The vacuum spacetimes include anti-de Sitter (adS) space and charged extreme black holes, but there are many others, including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 J. M. Izquierdo , P. K. Townsend

We construct the Killing spinors for a class of supersymmetric solutions of type IIB supergravity that are invariant under the non-relativistic Schrodinger algebra. The solutions depend on a five-dimensional Sasaki-Einstein space and it has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-05 Aristomenis Donos , Jerome P. Gauntlett

We investigate various aspects of higher-spin anti-de Sitter supergravity in three dimensions as described by Chern-Simons theory based on the finite-dimensional superalgebra sl(N |N - 1), with the particular case of N = 3 as our prime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 H. S. Tan

In this paper we develop a new framework for non-linear perturbations of the Kerr spacetime. This is based on a characterization of the Kerr spacetime in terms of a Killing spinor. On the perturbed spacetime, one can construct an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-08 Thomas Bäckdahl

We show that the Killing spinor equations of all supergravity theories which may include higher order corrections on a (r,s)-signature spacetime are associated with twisted covariant form hierarchies. These hierarchies are characterized by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 G. Papadopoulos

In this review, basic definitions of spin geometry are given and some of its applications to supersymmetry, supergravity and condensed matter physics are summarized. Clifford algebras and spinors are defined and the first-order differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Ümit Ertem

Motivated by a recent observation that the LLM geometries admit 1/4-BPS M5-brane probes with worldvolume AdS3 X \Sigma_2 X S1 preserving the R-symmetry, we initiate a classification of the most general AdS3 X S2 geometries in M-theory. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-09-06 Eoin Ó Colgáin , Jun-Bao Wu , Hossein Yavartanoo

We solve the Killing spinor equations of supersymmetric IIB backgrounds which admit one supersymmetry and the Killing spinor has stability subgroup G_2 in Spin(9,1) x U(1). We find that such backgrounds admit a time-like Killing vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 U. Gran , J. Gutowski , G. Papadopoulos

In physics literature about supersymmetry, many authors refer to "super Minkowski spaces". These spaces are affine supermanifolds with certain distinguished spin structures. In these notes, we make the notion of such spin structures precise…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-01 Johannes Moerland

We investigate the superalgebra of derivations generated by the fundamental forms on manifolds with reduced structure group. In particular, we point out a relation between the algebra of derivations of heterotic geometries that admit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-01 G. Papadopoulos

In this note we generalize the methods of [1][2][3] to 5-dimensional Riemannian manifolds M. We study the relations between the geometry of M and the number of solutions to a generalized Killing spinor equation obtained from a 5-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Yiwen Pan