A class of non-geometric M-theory compactification backgrounds
arXiv:1508.01750
Abstract
We study a particular class of supersymmetric M-theory eight-dimensional non-geometric compactification backgrounds to three-dimensional Minkowski space-time, proving that the global space of the non-geometric compactification is still a differentiable manifold, although with very different geometric and topological properties with respect to the corresponding standard M-theory compactification background: it is a compact complex manifold admitting a Kähler covering with deck transformations acting by holomorphic homotheties with respect to the Kähler metric. We show that this class of non-geometric compactifications evade the Maldacena-Nuñez no-go theorem by means of a mechanism originally developed by Mario García-Fernández and the author for Heterotic Supergravity, and thus do not require -corrections to allow for a non-trivial warp factor or four-form flux. We obtain an explicit compactification background on a complex Hopf four-fold that solves all the equations of motion of the theory. We also show that this class of non-geometric compactification backgrounds is equipped with a holomorphic principal torus fibration over a projective Kähler base as well as a codimension-one foliation with nearly-parallel -leaves, making thus contact with the work of M. Babalic and C. Lazaroiu on the foliation structure of the most general M-theory supersymmetric compactifications.
17 pages. To be published in JHEP together with arXiv:1503.00733
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