2016/12/01 by Parinya Karndumri, Jan Louis
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge group #Gauge theory #Gauged supergravity #Geometry and complex manifolds #Group (periodic table) #Moduli #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Supergravity #Supersymmetric gauge theory #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep01(2017)069
published as JHEP 01 (2017) 069 · 13 pages, no figures
arxiv created 2016/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/12/16 · openalex publication_date 2017/01/01 · arxiv updated 2017/01/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We study fully supersymmetric AdS6 vacua of half-maximal N = (1, 1) gauged supergravity in six space-time dimensions coupled to n vector multiplets. We show that the existence of AdS6 backgrounds requires that the gauge group is of the form G′ × G″ ⊂ SO(4, n) where G′ ⊂ SO(3, m) and G″ ⊂ SO(1, n − m). In the AdS6 vacua this gauge group is broken to its maximal compact subgroup SO(3) × H′′ × H″ where H′ ⊂ SO(m) and H″ ⊂ SO(n − m). Furthermore, the SO(3) factor is the R-symmetry gauged by three of the four graviphotons. We further show that the AdS6 vacua have no moduli that preserve all supercharges. This is precisely in agreement with the absence of supersymmetric marginal deformations in holographically dual five-dimensional superconformal field theories.