2019/11/30 by Emanuel Malek, Henning Samtleben · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.124.101601
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101601 (2020) · 6 pages; v2: published version with minor changes in text
arxiv created 2020/03/16 · arxiv updated 2020/03/18
Exceptional field theories yield duality covariant formulations of supergravity. We show that they provide a highly efficient tool to compute the Kaluza-Klein mass spectra associated to compactifications around various background geometries relevant for string theory and holographic applications. This includes geometries with little to no remaining symmetries, hardly accessible to standard methods. As an illustration, we work out the masses of some higher Kaluza-Klein multiplets around warped geometries corresponding to some prominent \cal N = 2 supersymmetric AdS vacua in maximal supergravity.