Supersymmetry without supersymmetry Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We present four-dimensional M-theory vacua with N > 0 supersymmetry which, from the perspective of perturbative Type IIA string theory, have N = 0. Such vacua can appear when the compactifying 7-manifold is a U(1) fibration. The missing superpartners are Dirichlet 0-branes. Someone unable to detect Ramond-Ramond charge would thus conclude that these worlds have no unbroken supersymmetry. In particular, the gravitinos (and also some of the gauge bosons) are 0-branes not seen in perturbation theory but which curiously remain massless however weak the string coupling. 1997 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICS LETTERS B

author list (cited authors)

  • Duff, M. J., Lu, H., & Pope, C. N.

citation count

  • 62

complete list of authors

  • Duff, MJ||Lu, H||Pope, CN

publication date

  • September 1997