Lobotomy of Flux Compactifications
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Abstract
We provide the dictionary between four-dimensional gauged supergravity and type II compactifications on T6 with metric and gauge fluxes in the absence of supersymmetry breaking sources, such as branes and orientifold planes. Secondly, we prove that there is a unique isotropic compactification allowing for critical points. It corresponds to a type IIA background given by a product of two 3-tori with SO(3) twists and results in a unique theory (gauging) with a non-semisimple gauge algebra. Besides the known four AdS solutions surviving the orientifold projection to N = 4 induced by O6-planes, this theory contains a novel AdS solution that requires non-trivial orientifold-odd fluxes, hence being a genuine critical point of the N = 8 theory.
Date Issued
2014-05-15
Publication Type
Article
Subject(s)
Language(s)
en
Author(s)
Dibitetto, Giuseppe | |
Roest, Diederik |
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
Publisher
Springer
ISSN
1029-8479
Access(Rights)
open.access