On the vacua of N=8 gauged supergravity in 4 dimensions

By G. DallʼAgata, G. Inverso. 2011

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Abstract We discuss a simple procedure for finding vacua of gauged supergravity models, based on the variation of the embedding tensor rather than on a direct minimization of the scalar potential. We apply this procedure to N = 8 gauged supergravity in 4 dimensions. We easily recover many of the previously known vacua, also completing their scalar mass spectrum, and we apply our procedure to find a dozen of new analytical vacuum solutions. The analysis shows an interesting structure on the moduli spaces of these vacua and provides new criteria to determine the expected value of the cosmological constant by a simple inspection of the group properties of the embedding tensor.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• Gauged Supergravities. (2016, methodology): “In [191] gaugings defined by an embedding tensor with non-vanishing components in both the 36 and of the 36′ representations of SL(8,R) were considered (see the previous paragraph on the gaugings in the SL(8,R)-frame).”