Supersymmetry, holonomy and Kundt spacetimes
| dc.creator | Brannlund, J | |
| dc.creator | Coley, A | |
| dc.creator | Hervik, S | |
| dc.date | 2008-07-28 | |
| dc.date | 2008-07-31 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T11:45:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T11:45:10Z | |
| dc.description | Supersymmetric solutions of supergravity theories, and consequently metrics with special holonomy, have played an important role in the development of string theory. We describe how a Lorentzian manifold is either completely reducible, and thus essentially known, or not completely reducible so that there exists a degenerate holonomy invariant lightlike subspace and consequently admits a covariantly constant or a recurrent null vector and belongs to the higher-dimensional Kundt class of spacetimes. These Kundt spacetimes (which contain the vanishing and constant curvature invariant spacetimes as special cases) are genuinely Lorentzian and have a number of interesting and unusual properties, which may lead to novel and fundamental physics. | |
| dc.description | 14 pages. Accepted by Class. Quant. Grav. Some misprints fixed | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4542 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4542 | |
| dc.identifier | Class.Quant.Grav.25:195007,2008 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/19/195007 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/201794 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Supersymmetry, holonomy and Kundt spacetimes | |
| dc.type | text |