Lessons from the Vacuum Structure of 4d N=2 Supergravity
arXiv:1207.3830
Abstract
This PhD thesis is devoted to the study of supersymmetry preserving background solutions of N=2 supergravity in 4 dimensions. The main contents are divided into three major parts, briefly summarized as follows. Part I deals with analysis of maximally supersymmetric configurations. Part II discusses BPS black holes with Minkowski and anti-de Sitter (AdS) asymptotics. The main topics in part III are superalgebras, BPS bounds and conserved charges for asymptotically flat or AdS spacetimes. Most of the chapters are based on previously published results with the exception of chapter 10 in part III, which is genuinely new and discusses the superalgebras of black hole configurations and their near-horizon geometries. A no-go theorem for static BPS black holes in AdS is proven in theories without hypermultiplets and the analogous situation in 5d is briefly explained.
209 pages; PhD thesis, defended 1 June 2012, advisor Stefan Vandoren; v2 minor corrections
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