M-theory backgrounds with 30 Killing spinors are maximally supersymmetric
Journal article, 2010
We show that all M-theory backgrounds which admit more than 29 Killing spinors are maximally supersymmetric. In particular, we find that the supercovariant curvature of all backgrounds which preserve 30 supersymmetries, subject to field equations and Bianchi identities, vanishes, and that there are no such solutions which arise as discrete quotients of maximally supersymmetric backgrounds.
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Author
Ulf Gran
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Mathematical Physics
J. Gutowski
King's College London
G. Papadopoulos
King's College London
Journal of High Energy Physics
1126-6708 (ISSN) 1029-8479 (eISSN)
Vol. (March) 3 (Article Number 112)- 112Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Subatomic Physics
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Basic sciences
DOI
10.1007/JHEP03(2010)112