M-theory and Gauged Supergravities
| dc.creator | Roest, Diederik | |
| dc.date | 2004-08-23 | |
| dc.date | 2004-08-31 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T11:32:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T11:32:19Z | |
| dc.description | 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. | |
| dc.description | 144 pages, 12 figures, 16 tables. Based on Ph.D. thesis, to be submitted to Fortschritte der Physik. v2: references added | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0408175 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0408175 | |
| dc.identifier | Fortsch.Phys.53:119-230,2005 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1002/prop.200410192 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/197554 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | M-theory and Gauged Supergravities | |
| dc.type | text |