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M-theory and gauged supergravities

✍ Scribed by D. Roest

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
900 KB
Volume
53
Category
Article
ISSN
0015-8208

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Abstract

We present a pedagogical discussion of the emergence of gauged supergravities from M‐theory. First, a review of maximal supergravity and its global symmetries and supersymmetric solutions is given. Next, different procedures of dimensional reduction are explained: reductions over a torus, a group manifold and a coset manifold and reductions with a twist. Emphasis is placed on the consistency of the truncations, the resulting gaugings and the possibility to generate field equations without an action. Using these techniques, we construct a number of gauged maximal supergravities in diverse dimensions with a string or M‐theory origin. One class consists of the CSO gaugings, which comprise the analytic continuations and group contractions of SO(n) gaugings. We construct the corresponding half‐supersymmetric domain walls and discuss their uplift to D‐ and M‐brane distributions. Furthermore, a number of gauged maximal supergravities are constructed that do not have an action.

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