Domain walls and instantons in N=1, d=4 supergravity

Details Domain walls and instantons in N=1, d=4 supergravity Domain walls and instantons in N=1, d=4 supergravity

2009-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/0912.3672v2

JHEP06:001, 2010

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

34 pages, 4 figures, references added

Scientific paper

10.1007/JHEP06(2010)001

We study the supersymmetric sources of (multi-) domain-wall and (multi-) instanton solutions of generic N=1, d=4 supergravities, that is: the worldvolume effective actions for said supersymmetric topological defects. The domain-wall solutions naturally couple to the two 3-forms recently found as part of the N=1, d=4 tensor hierarchy (i.e. they have two charges in general) and their tension is the absolute value of the superpotential section L. The introduction of sources (we study sources with finite and vanishing thickness) is equivalent to the introduction of local coupling constants and results in dramatic changes of the solutions. Our results call for a democratic reformulation of N=1,d=4 supergravity in which coupling constants are, off-shell, scalar fields. The effective actions for the instantons are always proportional to the coordinate orthogonal to the twist-free embedding of the null-geodesic (in the Wick-rotated scalar manifold) describing the instanton. We show their supersymmetry and find the associated supersymmetric (multi-) instanton solutions.

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