Inconsistency of breathing mode extensions of maximal five-dimensional supergravity embedding Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Recent work on consistent Kaluza-Klein reductions on Einstein-Sasaki spaces prompted an intriguing conjecture that there might exist a consistent S 5 reduction of type IIB supergravity to give five-dimensional N = 8 gauged supergravity coupled to a massive supermultiplet that includes the breathing-mode scalar. Motivated by this, we investigate the possibility of augmenting the usual N = 8 supergravity reduction to include a breathing-mode scalar, and we show that this is in fact inconsistent. The standard reduction to the massless N = 8 supermultiplet depends for its consistency on a delicate interplay between properties of the ten-dimensional type IIB theory and properties of the Killing vectors on S5. Our calculations show that turning on the breathing-mode is sufficient to destroy the balance, and hence render the reduction inconsistent. SISSA 2012.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Liu, J. T., & Pope, C. N.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Liu, James T||Pope, CN

publication date

  • June 2012