Five-dimensional Supergravity Research Articles

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We construct a one-parameter family of half-BPS solutions of type IIB supergravity using a consistent truncation to gauged five-dimensional supergravity. For small values of the parameter, the solution reduces to the linear perturbation of AdS5 × S5 dual to the chiral primary operator in the stress-tensor multiplet, and we give evidence that the geometry is regular and asymptotes AdS in a normalisable way for arbitrarily large values of the parameter. We conjecture that the solution is the gravity dual of a “heavy” multi-trace operator in N\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$ \\mathcal{N} $$\\end{document} = 4 SU(N) Super Yang-Mills made by p copies of the stress-tensor chiral primary operator, with p of order N2 in the large N limit. We perform some holographic checks supporting this duality map.

Capped black hole in five dimensions

We present the first non-BPS (Bogomol’nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield) exact solution of an asymptotically flat, stationary spherical black hole having domain of outer communication with nontrivial topology in five-dimensional minimal supergravity. It describes a charged rotating black hole capped by a disk-shaped bubble. The existence of the “capped black hole” shows the nonuniqueness of spherical black holes. Published by the American Physical Society 2024

Exact non-Abelian supertubes

Supertubes are supersymmetric configurations in string theory in which branes are extending along a closed curve. For a supertube of codimension two, its dipole charge is characterized by the duality monodromy around the closed curve. When multiple codimension-2 supertubes are present, the monodromies around different supertubes can be non-commuting, namely non-Abelian. Non-Abelian configurations of supertubes are expected to play an important role in non-perturbative physics of string theory, especially black holes. In this paper, in the framework of five-dimensional supergravity, we construct exact solutions describing codimension-2 supertubes in three-dimensional space. We use an extension formula to construct a three-dimensional solution from a two-dimensional seed solution. The two-dimensional seed is an F-theory like configuration in which a torus is nontrivially fibered over a complex plane. In the first example, there is a stack of circular supertubes around which there is a non-trivial monodromy. In some cases this can be thought of as a microstate of a black hole in AdS2 × S2. The second example is an axi-symmetric solution with two stacks of circular supertubes with non-Abelian monodromies. In addition, there is a continuous distribution of charges on the symmetry axis.

Near-horizon geometries and black hole thermodynamics in higher-derivative AdS5 supergravity

Higher-derivative corrections in the AdS/CFT correspondence allow us to capture finer details of the dual CFT and to explore the holographic dictionary beyond the infinite N and strong coupling limits. Following an effective field theory approach, we investigate extremal AdS black hole solutions in five-dimensional supergravity with higher-derivative corrections. We provide a general analysis of near-horizon geometries of rotating extremal black holes and show how to obtain their corresponding charges and chemical potentials. We discuss the near-horizon solutions of the two-derivative theory, which we write using a novel parametrization that eases our computation of the higher-derivative corrections. The charges and thermodynamic properties of the black hole are computed while clarifying the ambiguities in their definitions. The charges and potentials turn out to satisfy a near-horizon version of the first law of thermodynamics whose interpretation we make clear. In the supersymmetric case, the results are shown to match the field theory prediction as well as previous results obtained from the on-shell action.

Killing spinors for finite temperature Euclidean solutions at the BPS bound

In a recent paper [arXiv:2308.00038], Anupam, Chowdhury, and Sen conjectured that the finite temperature Euclidean five-dimensional Cvetic-Youm solution saturating the BPS bound is supersymmetric. In this paper, we explicitly construct Killing spinors for this solution in five-dimensional minimal supergravity. We also expand on the previous discussions of Killing spinors for the finite temperature Euclidean Kerr-Newman solution saturating the BPS bound. For both these cases, we show that the total charge gets divided into two harmonic sources on three-dimensional flat base space.

Real supersymmetric solutions of (3,2) signature five-dimensional supergravity

We classify supersymmetric solutions of D = 5 (3,2) signature supergravity with either vanishing or imaginary gauge coupling constant preserving the minimal N = 2 supersymmetry. We prove that the geometry of such solutions is characterized by a nilpotent integrable endomorphism, and obtain the necessary and sufficient conditions on the fluxes imposed by supersymmetry. We also construct examples of supersymmetric domain wall solutions for which the nilpotent integrable endomorphism is associated with a Killing–Yano two-form, as well as a new descendant ‘preon’ solution which preserves N = 6 supersymmetry. This is notable as such N = 6 descendant solutions do not exist in the standard signature D = 5 supergravity.

The hierarchy problem and [formula omitted] supergravity

We introduce a new scenario to solve the hierarchy problem based on N=2, five-dimensional supergravity compactified on Calabi–Yau threefold down from D=11 supergravity. When modeling the universe as a 3-brane embedded in a five-dimensional bulk, the background metric is proportional to one of the hypermultiplets fields, namely the dilaton, the volume modulus of the Calabi–Yau space. When solving the dilaton field equation, we find that it is dependent on the extra dimension. We solve the modified Friedmann equations and find the implications of the model on the relation between the effective four-dimensional gravity scale in the brane and the Planck scale of the fifth extra dimension (M). A couple of different scales are considered for the extra dimension, the first where the extra dimension is in range of the solar system and M is of order of the electroweak scale, and the second where the scale of the extra dimension is of order μm and the higher dimensional Planck scale M∼1013GeV. In both cases, the signatures of Kaluza–Klein excitations are quite distinct from the signatures of any previous extra dimensions model.

Localization on AdS3× S2. Part I. The 4d/5d connection in off-shell Euclidean supergravity

We begin to develop the formalism of localization for the functional integral of supergravity on AdS3× S2. We show how the condition of supersymmetry in the Euclidean ℍ3/ℤ × S2 geometry naturally leads to a twist of the S2 around the time direction of AdS3. The twist gives us a five-dimensional Euclidean supergravity background dual to the elliptic genus of (0, 4) SCFT2 at the semiclassical level. On this background we set up the off-shell BPS equations for one of the Killing spinors, such that the functional integral of five-dimensional Euclidean supergravity on ℍ3/ℤ × S2 localizes to its space of solutions. We obtain a class of solutions to these equations by lifting known off-shell BPS solutions of 4-dimensional supergravity on AdS2× S2. In order to do this consistently, we construct and use a Euclidean version of the off-shell 4d/5d lift of arXiv:1112.5371, which could be of independent interest.

Quantum gravity constraints on scale separation and de Sitter in five dimensions

We give evidence that supersymmetric anti-de Sitter vacua of five-dimensional supergravity cannot be scale separated as a consequence of quantum gravity constraints, such as the weak gravity conjecture or the species scale. We show this in a model-independent way for the minimal and the maximal theory and we believe that the argument can be extended to any amount of preserved supercharges in the between. If combined with previous works stating that non-supersymmetric anti-de Sitter vacua must be unstable, our results suggest that five-dimensional effective field theories in anti-de Sitter belong to the swampland. At the cost of introducing an additional assumption on the gravitino mass, we can extend our analysis to de Sitter vacua as well. However, the few known stable de Sitter vacua of minimal five-dimensional supergravity do not satisfy such an assumption and thus evade our constraints. This suggest that they are on a somehow different footing than their four-dimensional counterparts and therefore deserve further investigation.

Curvature-squared invariants of minimal five-dimensional supergravity from superspace

We elaborate on the off-shell superspace construction of curvature-squared invariants in minimal five-dimensional supergravity. This is described by the standard Weyl multiplet of conformal supergravity coupled to two compensators being a vector multiplet and a linear multiplet. In this setup, we review the definition of the off-shell two-derivative gauged supergravity together with the three independent four-derivative superspace invariants defined in Butter et al. [J. High Energy Phys. 02 (2015) 111]. We provide the explicit expression for the linear multiplet based on a prepotential given by the logarithm of the vector multiplet primary superfield. We then present for the first time the primary equations of motion for minimal gauged off-shell supergravity deformed by an arbitrary combination of these three four-derivative locally superconformal invariants. We also identify a four-derivative invariant based on the linear multiplet compensator and the kinetic superfield of a vector multiplet, which can be used to engineer an alternative supersymmetric completion of the scalar curvature squared.

Interpreting the cosmic history of the Universe through five-dimensional supergravity

Through modeling the Universe as a symplectic 3-brane embedded in the bulk of five-dimensional ungauged supergravity theory, the entire evolution of the Universe can be interpreted from inflation to late-time acceleration without introducing an inflaton nor a cosmological constant. The time dependence of the brane is strongly correlated to the complex structure moduli of the underlying Calabi–Yau submanifold and the bulk effects. The solutions to the field equations are found by exploiting the theory’s symplectic structure where the time evolution is similar to our Universe according to the latest data of the Planck mission. Our results present a new explanation for the nature of dark energy mainly based on the topology of the subspace and the existence of a fifth extra dimension.

Spinor-helicity formalism for massive and massless amplitudes in five dimensions

Five-dimensional gauge and gravity theories are known to exhibit striking properties. D = 5 is the lowest dimension where massive tensor states appear naturally, providing a testing ground for perturbative insights into six-dimensional tensor theories. Five-dimensional supergravities are highly constrained and admit elegant geometric and algebraic formulations, with global symmetries manifest at the Lagrangian level.In this paper, we take a step towards the systematic investigation of amplitudes in five dimensions, and present a five-dimensional version of the spinor-helicity formalism, applicable to massless, massive and supersymmetric states. We give explicit representations for on-shell spinor and polarization variables such that the little-group symmetry and gauge redundancy are manifest. Massive self-dual tensor states are discussed in some detail, as well as all the on-shell supermultiplets that can appear in matter-coupled gauge and supergravity theories. As a byproduct of considering supersymmetry in the presence of central charge, we obtain massless ten-dimensional Majorana-Weyl spinors as products of five-dimensional massive spinors.We present compact expressions for superamplitudes at multiplicity three and four, including several novel superamplitudes that either do not straightforwardly uplift to six dimensions, or have not appeared in the six-dimensional literature. We discuss several examples of five-dimensional double-copy constructions in the context of gravitational theories with massive vectors and tensors, illustrating that the formalism we construct can also be used to considerably streamline the double-copy construction of mathcal{N} = 2 Maxwell-Einstein supergravities.

Supersymmetric Black Holes with a Single Axial Symmetry in Five Dimensions

We present a classification of asymptotically flat, supersymmetric black hole and soliton solutions of five-dimensional minimal supergravity that admit a single axial symmetry which ‘commutes’ with the supersymmetry. This includes the first examples of five-dimensional black hole solutions with exactly one axial Killing field that are smooth on and outside the horizon. The solutions have similar properties to the previously studied class with biaxial symmetry, in particular, they have a Gibbons–Hawking base and the harmonic functions must be of multi-centred type with the centres corresponding to the connected components of the horizon or fixed points of the axial symmetry. We find a large moduli space of black hole and soliton spacetimes with non-contractible 2-cycles and the horizon topologies are S^3, S^1times S^2 and lens spaces L(p, 1).

Kaluza–Klein reductions of maximally supersymmetric five-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes

A recent study of filtered deformations of (graded subalgebras of) the minimal five-dimensional Poincaré superalgebra resulted in two classes of maximally supersymmetric spacetimes. One class are the well-known maximally supersymmetric backgrounds of minimal five-dimensional supergravity, whereas the other class does not seem to be related to supergravity. This paper is a study of the Kaluza–Klein (KK) reductions to four dimensions of this latter class of maximally supersymmetric spacetimes. We classify the Lorentzian and Riemannian KK reductions of these backgrounds, determine the fraction of the supersymmetry preserved under the reduction and in most cases determine explicitly the geometry of the four-dimensional quotient. Among the many supersymmetric quotients found, we highlight a number of novel non-homogeneous four-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes admitting N = 1 supersymmetry, whose supersymmetry algebra is not a filtered deformation of any graded subalgebra of the four-dimensional N = 1 Poincaré superalgebra. Any of these four-dimensional Lorentzian spacetimes may serve as the arena for the construction of new rigidly supersymmetric field theories.

Gravity, duality and conformal symmetry

The ( 4 , 0 ) supermultiplet in six dimensions contains a fourth-rank tensor gauge field with the symmetries of the Riemann tensor and is superconformal, with 32 + 32 supersymmetries. Dimensional reduction on a circle gives the five dimensions N = 8 supergravity multiplet, with the fourth-rank tensor reducing to the graviton. If there is an interacting ( 4 , 0 ) theory, it should reduce to the full N = 8 supergravity theory and so would give a conformal theory of gravity that would reduce to conventional gravity with the usual two-derivative action at low energies. This paper revisits the conjecture that a non-lagrangian interacting ( 4 , 0 ) superconformal theory arises from a strong coupling limit of five-dimensional supergravity (suitably embedded in M -theory) describing M -theory at energies beyond the Planck scale. A key test for this is identified: M -theory toroidally compactified to five dimensions should have certain BPS states carrying a singlet central charge. These 1/2 BPS states are not related to any of the standard BPS states by dualities and do not correspond to non-singular soliton solutions—they appear to correspond to singular solutions related to gravitational instantons. Such states are needed to provide the Kaluza–Klein modes for the compactified six-dimensional theory. If there are no such states, then the conjecture is false, while the presence of such states would be strong indication that the conjecture could be true.

Kasner metrics and very special geometry

We consider general charged Kasner-like solutions for the theory of five-dimensional supergravity coupled to Abelian vector multiplets in arbitrary space-time signature. These solutions, depending on the choice of coordinates, can be thought of as generalisations of Melvin/Rosen cosmologies, flux-branes and domain walls.

Hidden Kac-Moody structures in the fermionic sector of five-dimensional supergravity

We study the supersymmetric quantum dynamics of the cosmological models obtained by reducing $D=5$ supergravity to one timelike dimension. This consistent truncation has fourteen bosonic degrees of freedom, while the quantization of the homogeneous gravitino field leads to a $2^{16}$--dimensional fermionic Hilbert space. We construct a consistent quantization of the model in which the wave function of the Universe is a $2^{16}$--component spinor %\textcolor{red}{of Spin(24,8)} depending on fourteen continuous coordinates, which satisfies eight Dirac-like wave equations (supersymmetry constraints) and one Klein-Gordon-like equation (Hamiltonian constraint). The fermionic part of the quantum Hamiltonian is built from operators that generate a $2^{16}$-dimensional representation of the (infinite-dimensional) maximally compact sub-algebra $K(G_2^{++})$ of the rank-4 hyperbolic Kac--Moody algebra $G_2^{++}$. The (quartic-in-fermions) squared-mass term $\widehat \mu^2$ entering the Klein-Gordon-like equation has several remarkable properties: (i) it commutes with the generators of $K(G_2^{++})$; and (ii) it is a quadratic polynomial in the fermion number $N_F \sim \overline\Psi \Psi$, and a symplectic fermion bilinear $C_F \sim \Psi C\Psi$. Some aspects of the structure of the solutions of our model are discussed, and notably the Kac-Moody meaning of the operators describing the reflection of the wave function on the fermion-dependent potential walls ("quantum fermionic Kac-Moody billiard").

Stable bound orbits in microstate geometries

We show the existence of stable bound orbits for the massive and massless particles moving in the simplest microstate geometry spacetime in the bosonic sector of the five-dimensional minimal supergravity. In our analysis, reducing the motion of particles to a two-dimensional potential problem, we numerically investigate whether the potential has a negative local minimum.

Consistent truncations around half-maximal AdS5 vacua of 11-dimensional supergravity

We use exceptional field theory to systematically study all possible consistent truncations around any M-theory half-maximal vacua of the warped product form AdS5 × M 3 × S 2 × S 1, with M 3 a three-dimensional manifold. We show that, for any of these vacua, only truncations with at most three vector multiplets are consistent. Furthermore, the possible gaugings are restricted to be either SU(2) × U(1) or ISO(3) × U(1) where, in the first case, the U(1) factor can have different embeddings inside the global symmetry group SO(5, n), where n ⩽ 3 equals the number of vector multiplets. This rules out the possibility of any other gauging arising as a consistent truncation around the aforementioned M-theory vacua. Our analysis shows that of the many flows from half-maximal to quarter-maximal AdS5 vacua constructed in five-dimensional supergravity in Bobev (2018 J. High Energy Phys. 6 86), only those corresponding to an adjoint mass deformation in the dual SCFT can be uplifted to 11-dimensional supergravity. The other flows are five-dimensional artefacts without a higher-dimensional origin. Furthermore, consistent truncations with vector multiplets exist only if the vacuum satisfies certain conditions, which we derive.

Resolving the information loss paradox from the five-dimensional minimal supergravity black hole

In this paper, we study the Hawking tunneling radiation of the charged rotating black hole in five-dimensional minimal supergravity theory by using the semiclassical Hamilton-Jacobi equation. By using two separated ways we obtain the corrected entropy of the black hole. Equality of results gives us a special condition that may solve the information loss paradox. Then, we focus on the phase transitions, and the results show that if the effects of thermal fluctuations are incorporated in the entropy, the black hole is unstable, while there are phase transitions according to the sign-changing behavior of the black hole specific heat. We find that, in presence of thermal fluctuations, the black holes of five-dimensional minimal supergravity behave like the black holes in Horava-Lifshitz gravity hence the second-order phase transition is possible.