QUANTUM SPACETIME: The quantum structure of spacetime and the geometric nature of fundamental interactions

• Forschungsstelle: EU FRP
• Projektnummer: 99.0862
• Projekttitel Englisch: QUANTUM SPACETIME: The quantum structure of spacetime and the geometric nature of fundamental interactions

Schlüsselwörter (Englisch)

String theory; supersymmetry; supergravity; unified theories of particle interactions

Alternative Projektnummern (Englisch)

EU project number: HPRN-2000-00131

Forschungsprogramme (Englisch)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 4.1.1 Research training networks

Kurzbeschreibung (Englisch)

See abstract

Partner und Internationale Organisationen (Englisch)

Coordinator: Koninglijke Universiteit Leuven (B)

Abstract (Englisch)

Branes with fluxes :
The deformation of purely geometrical backgrounds of M-theory by fluxes can be studied using eight-dimensional gauged supergravity. Hernandez and Sfetsos (Patras Univ.) have shown that the most general solution describing D6-branes wrapped on Kähler four-cycles taken to be the product of two-spheres of different radii can be lifted to M-theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau fourfold. As a four-form flux representing a set of D2-branes along the flat directions is turned on, the geometry is deformed to a direct product of four-dimensional anti-de Sitter space with the Einstein-Sasakian seven manifold G1,1,1.
Branes wrapped on supersymmetric cycles :
D6-branes lift to pure geometry in eleven dimensions. This indicates that compactifications of M-theory on manifolds with reduced holonomy arise as the local eleven-dimensional description of D6-branes wrapped on supersymmetric cycles in manifolds of lower dimension with a different holonomy group. R. Hernandez and K. Sfetsos (Patras Univ.) have developed a systematic approach to manifolds of G2 holonomy with an SU(2)XSU(2) isometry, using maximal eight-dimensional gauged supergravity to describe D6-branes wrapped on deformed special Lagrangan three-spheres.

Datenbankreferenzen (Englisch)

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