New formulations of D = 10 supersymmetry and D8-O8 domain walls

By Eric Bergshoeff, R. Kallosh, T. Ortín, D. Roest, A. Proeyen. 2001

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We discuss a generalized form of IIA/IIB supergravity depending on all R-R potentials C(p) (p = 0,1,...,9) as the effective field theory of type IIA/IIB superstring theory. For the IIA case we explicitly break this R-R democracy to either p⩽3 or p⩾5, which allows us to write a new bulk action that can be coupled to N = 1 supersymmetric brane actions. The case of eight-branes is studied in detail using the new bulk & brane action. The supersymmetric negative-tension branes without matter excitations can be viewed as orientifolds in the effective action. These D8-branes and \mbox{O$8$-planes} are fundamental in type I' string theory. A BPS eight-brane solution is given which satisfies the jump conditions on the wall. It implies a quantization of the mass parameter in string units. Also, we find a maximal distance between the two walls, depending on the string coupling and the mass parameter. We derive the same results via supersymmetric flow equations.

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The effective action of D7-branes in N=1 Calabi-Yau orientifolds (2004, neutral): “[42].”
Gauged Supergravities. (2016, background): “where F̂ (k) are field-strengths of RR (k− 1)-form fields C(k−1), which are present in the two theories in the democratic formulation of [233]:(83) even-k tensors in Type IIA theory and odd-k in the Type IIB one.”
Exceptional field theory. II. E$_{7(7)}$ (2013, background): “This is in the spirit of the ‘democratic formulation’ of supergravities [28].”
Hypermultiplets, domain walls and supersymmetric attractors (2001, background): “A more difficult step would be to find the natural mechanism for appearance of such brane sources in string theory with O8-planes and D8-branes, stabilized moduli, and additional fluxes along the lines suggested in [ 47 ].”
Duality Symmetric String and M-Theory (2013, methodology): “In the democratic formalism [46] RR fields are combined with their Hodge duals to form a bispinor as”
Four-dimensional string compactifications with D-branes, orientifolds and fluxes (2006, background): “Its effects are reproduced by integrating out the RR forms of degree higher then five [129, 130].”
Supersymmetric D-branes and calibrations on general Script N = 1 backgrounds (2005, methodology): “We will follow the method described in [1, 2] which uses the democratic formalism of [32], and in particular we adopt their conventions in the following calculation.”
Generalized N=1 orientifold compactifications and the Hitchin functionals (2006, methodology): “10) Note that only half of the degrees of freedom in Ĉ are physical, while the other half can be eliminated by a duality constraint [89].”
(1,0) superconformal models in six dimensions (2011, background): “, just as in the democratic formulation of tendimensional supergravity [24].”
Supersymmetric backgrounds from generalized Calabi‐Yau manifolds (2004, background): “Our starting point is the democratic formalism of [13], for which the supersymmetry transformations for the gravitino and the dilatino are 8 δψM = DMǫ+ 1 4 HMPǫ+ 1 16 e ∑”
Flux compactifications in string theory: A Comprehensive review (2005, methodology): “For the RR field strengths, we will use the democratic formulation of Ref.[40], who actually considers all RR potentials (C1.”
SU(3) × SU(3) compactification and mirror duals of magnetic fluxes (2006, background): “The supersymmetry transformation of the gravitinos for the democratic formulation [56] in Einstein frame is”
Consistent Kaluza-Klein truncations via exceptional field theory (2014, neutral): “8) is to be understood as a “pseudoLagrangian” in the sense of a democratic action [56], with the vector fields further subject to the first order duality equations Fμν “ 1 2 i eεμνρσ Ω MNK F , (2.”
Generalized structures of N=1 vacua (2005, methodology): “To set the conventions, we use the string frame and the democratic formulation of [29].”
The E-11 origin of all maximal supergravities (2007, background): “The resulting supersymmetry algebra [31] gives the supersymmetry algebra of massless IIA [1] in the limit in which the cosmological constant vanishes.”