Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2008-09-29
Class.Quant.Grav.26:035016,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
17 pages
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/26/3/035016
In this note we give a precise definition of the notion of a maximal superalgebra of certain types of supersymmetric supergravity backgrounds, including the Freund-Rubin backgrounds, and propose a geometric construction extending the well-known construction of its Killing superalgebra. We determine the structure of maximal Lie superalgebras and show that there is a finite number of isomorphism classes, all related via contractions from an orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra. We use the structure theory to show that maximally supersymmetric waves do not possess such a maximal superalgebra, but that the maximally supersymmetric Freund-Rubin backgrounds do. We perform the explicit geometric construction of the maximal superalgebra of AdS_4 x S^7 and find that is isomorphic to osp(1|32). We propose an algebraic construction of the maximal superalgebra of any background asymptotic to AdS_4 x S^7 and we test this proposal by computing the maximal superalgebra of the M2-brane in its two maximally supersymmetric limits, finding agreement.
Figueroa-O'Farrill José
Hackett-Jones Emily
Moutsopoulos George
Simon Jonathan
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