Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-11-03
Class.Quant.Grav.17:2641-2662,2000
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
39 pages, phyzzx; a previously undetermined fraction of supersymmetry has now been fixed; a table has been replaced; version s
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/17/14/304
We present a geometric construction of a new class of hyper-Kahler manifolds with torsion. This involves the superposition of the four-dimensional hyper-Kahler geometry with torsion associated with the NS-5-brane along quaternionic planes in quaternionic k-space, $\bH^k$. We find the moduli space of these geometries and show that it can be constructed using the bundle space of the canonical quaternionic line bundle over a quaternionic projective space. We also investigate several special cases which are associated with certain classes of quaternionic planes in $\bH^k$. We then show that the eight-dimensional geometries we have found can be constructed using quaternionic calibrations. We generalize our construction to superpose the same four-dimensional hyper-Kahler geometry with torsion along complex planes in $\bC^{2k}$. We find that the resulting geometry is Kahler with torsion. The moduli space of these geometries is also investigated. In addition, the applications of these new geometries to M-theory and sigma models are presented. In particular, we find new solutions of IIA supergravity with the interpretation of intersecting NS-5-branes at Sp(2)-angles on a string and show that they preserve 3/32, 1/8, 5/32 and 3/16 of supersymmetry. We also show that two-dimensional sigma models with target spaces the above manifolds have (p,q) extended supersymmetry.
Papadopoulos George
Teschendorff Andrew
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