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Global properties of the conformal manifold for S-fold backgrounds

Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2021, Article number: 111 (2021) Cite this article

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We study a one-parameter family of \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 anti-de Sitter vacua with U(1)2 symmetry of gauged four-dimensional maximal supergravity, with dyonic gauge group [SO(6) × SO(1, 1)] ⋉ ℝ12. These backgrounds are known to correspond to Type IIB S-fold solutions with internal manifold of topology S1 × S5. The family of AdS4 vacua is parametrized by a modulus χ. Although χ appears non-compact in the four-dimensional supergravity, we show that this is just an artefact of the four-dimensional description. We give the 10-dimensional geometric interpretation of the modulus and show that it actually has periodicity of \( \frac{2\pi }{T} \), which is the inverse radius of S1. We deduce this by providing the explicit D = 10 uplift of the family of vacua as well as computing the entire modulus-dependent Kaluza-Klein spectrum as a function of χ. At the special values χ = 0 and χ = \( \frac{\pi }{T} \), the symmetry enhances according to U(1)2 → U(2), giving rise however to inequivalent Kaluza-Klein spectra. At χ = \( \frac{\pi }{T} \), this realizes a bosonic version of the “space invaders” scenario with additional massless vector fields arising from formerly massive fields at higher Kaluza-Klein levels.

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    Alfredo Giambrone & Mario Trigiante

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    Alfredo Giambrone & Mario Trigiante

  3. Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, IRIS Gebäude, Zum Großen Windkanal 2, 12489, Berlin, Germany

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  4. Univ Lyon, Ens de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique, F-69342, Lyon, France

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Giambrone, A., Malek, E., Samtleben, H. et al. Global properties of the conformal manifold for S-fold backgrounds. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 111 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2021)111

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Keywords

  • Supergravity Models
  • Flux compactifications
  • AdS-CFT Correspondence
  • String Duality