The return of the four- and five-dimensional preons

José Figueroa-O'Farrill, Jan Gutowski, Wafic Sabra

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Abstract

We prove the existence of 3/4-BPS preons in four- and five-dimensional gauged supergravities by explicitly constructing them as smooth quotients of the AdS4and AdS5 maximally supersymmetric backgrounds, respectively. This result illustrates how the spacetime topology resurrects a fraction of supersymmetry previously ruled out by the local analysis of the Killing spinor equations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number010
Pages (from-to)4429-4438
Number of pages10
JournalClassical and quantum gravity
Volume24
Issue number17
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Aug 2007

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