Monday, February 6, 2012

1202.0770 (Giuseppe Dibitetto et al.)

Exceptional Flux Compactifications    [PDF]

Giuseppe Dibitetto, Adolfo Guarino, Diederik Roest
We consider type II (non-)geometric flux backgrounds in the absence of brane
sources, and construct their explicit embedding into maximal gauged D=4
supergravity. This enables one to investigate the critical points, mass spectra
and gauge groups of such backgrounds. We focus on a class of type IIA geometric
vacua and find a novel, non-supersymmetric and stable AdS vacuum in maximal
supergravity with a non-semisimple gauge group. Our construction relies on a
non-trivial mapping between SL(2) x SO(6,6) fluxes, SU(8) mass spectra and
gaugings of E7(7) subgroups.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0770

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