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Supersymmetric Domain Walls

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-05-30 v1

Abstract

We classify the half-supersymmetric "domain walls", i.e. branes of codimension one, in toroidally compactified IIA/IIB string theory and show to which gauged supergravity theory each of these domain walls belong. We use as input the requirement of supersymmetric Wess-Zumino terms, the properties of the E11 Kac-Moody algebra and the embedding tensor formalism. We show that the number of half-supersymmetric domain walls is a multiple of the number of corresponding central charges in the supersymmetry algebra, where the multiplicity is related to the degeneracy of the BPS conditions.

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@article{arxiv.1206.5697,
  title  = {Supersymmetric Domain Walls},
  author = {Eric A. Bergshoeff and Axel Kleinschmidt and Fabio Riccioni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.5697},
  year   = {2013}
}

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44 pages, 9 tables

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