Chiral compactification on Minkowski S2 of N = 2 Einstein-Maxwell supergravity in six dimensions Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We show that the U(1) gauged Einstein-Maxwell supergravity in six dimensions, spontaneously compactifies on Minkowski S2, with a monopole-valued Maxwell field on S2. The bosomic symmetry of the background is SU(2) U(1). The field equations fix the monopole charge to be 1. The consequence of this is that the N = 2 supersymmetry breaks down to N = 1, and chiral fermions emerge. 1984.

published proceedings

  • Physics Letters B

author list (cited authors)

  • Salam, A., & Sezgin, E.

citation count

  • 224

publication date

  • November 1984