A second look at gauged supergravities from fluxes in M-theory

Derendinger, Jean-Pierre; Guarino, Jose Adolfo (2014). A second look at gauged supergravities from fluxes in M-theory. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(9) Springer 10.1007/JHEP09(2014)162

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We investigate reductions of M-theory beyond twisted tori by allowing the presence of KK6 monopoles (KKO6-planes) compatible with N = 4 supersymmetry in four dimensions. The presence of KKO6-planes proves crucial to achieve full moduli stabilisation as they generate new universal moduli powers in the scalar potential. The resulting gauged supergravities turn out to be compatible with a weak G2 holonomy at N = 1 as well as at some non-supersymmetric AdS4 vacua. The M-theory flux vacua we present here cannot be obtained from ordinary type IIA orientifold reductions including background fluxes, D6-branes (O6-planes) and/or KK5 (KKO5) sources. However, from a four-dimensional point of view, they still admit a description in terms of so-called non-geometric fluxes. In this sense we provide the M-theory interpretation for such non-geometric type IIA flux vacua.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC)
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Theoretical Physics

UniBE Contributor:

Derendinger, Jean-Pierre, Guarino, Jose Adolfo

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

1029-8479

Publisher:

Springer

Language:

English

Submitter:

Esther Fiechter

Date Deposited:

24 Nov 2014 14:50

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:38

Publisher DOI:

10.1007/JHEP09(2014)162

ArXiv ID:

1406.6930

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.60243

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/60243

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