Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2001-09-07
JHEP 0112:026,2001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
37 pages, no figures, JHEP3, minor typos corrected, one reference added, Appendix A streamlined
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2001/12/026
Compactifications of M-theory on singular manifolds contain additional charged massless states descending from M-branes wrapped on vanishing cycles. We construct the first explicit example of a complete supergravity Lagrangian that includes such extra states. This is done for a compactification on a Calabi-Yau threefold that develops a genus zero curve of A_1 singularities at the boundary of the K\"ahler cone with a resulting SU(2) gauge symmetry enhancement. The corresponding SU(2) gauged supergravity Lagrangian includes two charged and two neutral vector multiplets, and turns out to be uniquely fixed by the Calabi-Yau geometry and by the effective ungauged Lagrangian describing the Coulomb branch. One can see explicitly how resolving the singularity corresponds to a supersymmetric Higgs effect in the gauged supergravity description. The elementary transformation relating the two families of smooth Calabi-Yau resolutions of the singularity acts as the SU(2) Weyl twist. The resulting structure appears to be very rigid and is likely to apply to other types of singularities and manifolds as well.
Mohaupt Thomas
Zagermann Marco
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