Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2001-09-27
JHEP 0111:012,2001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Referneces added, 36 pages
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2001/11/012
Two ways in which de Sitter space can arise in supergravity theories are discussed. In the first, it arises as a solution of a conventional supergravity, in which case it necessarily has no Killing spinors. For example, de Sitter space can arise as a solution of N=8 gauged supergravities in four or five dimensions. These lift to solutions of 11-dimensional supergravity or D=10 IIB supergravity which are warped products of de Sitter space and non-compact spaces of negative curvature. In the second way, de Sitter space can arise as a supersymmetric solution of an unconventional supergravity theory, which typically has some kinetic terms with the `wrong' sign; such solutions are invariant under a de Sitter supergroup. Such solutions lift to supersymmetric solutions of unconventional supergravities in D=10 or D=11, which nonetheless arise as field theory limits of theories that can be obtained from M-theory by timelike T-dualities and related dualities. Brane solutions interpolate between these solutions and flat space and lead to a holographic duality between theories in de Sitter vacua and Euclidean conformal field theories. Previous results are reviewed and generalised, and discussion is included of Kaluza-Klein theory with non-compact internal spaces, brane and cosmological solutions, and holography on de Sitter spaces and product spaces.
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