Supersymmetric objects in gauged supergravities

Abstract

This thesis is focused on supersymmetric objects in gauged supergravities and their interpretation in string theory. Three particular theories are considered and analyzed: matter-coupled $d=4,5$ abelian gauged supergravities with 8 supercharges and minimal $d=7$ gauged supergravity with 16 supercharges. Respectively in the $d=4$ and $d=5$ cases, the BPS first-order flows of static extremal black holes and black strings are studied using the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism. The attractor mechanism is formulated for the case of couplings to hypermultiplets and two exact BPS black hole solutions are derived in $d=4$ from the first-order equations obtained with the Hamilton-Jacobi approach. One of these black holes manifests an ${\mathrm{AdS}}_4$ asymptotics which has not yet a clear explanation in string theory. Within the minimal $d=7$ theory, a class of asymptotically ${\mathrm{AdS}}_7$ BPS solutions involving a non-trivial profile for a 3-form gauge potential is derived and analyzed in relation to the embedding in M-theory and massive IIA string theory. The holographic interpretation of a particular asymptotically ${\mathrm{AdS}}_7$ solution characterized by an ${\mathrm{AdS}}_3$ slicing of the 7-dimensional background is formulated in terms of a conformal defect $\mathcal{N}=(4,0)$ ${\mathrm{SCFT}}_2$ within the $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ ${\mathrm{SCFT}}_6$ dual to the ${\mathrm{AdS}}_7$.

arXiv commentPh.D. thesis (defended 26/01/2018, University of Milan). 205 pages, 6 figures, 8 tables. This thesis draws heavily from arXiv:1503.09055, arXiv:1507.05553, arXiv:1602.01334, arXiv:1610.07367, arXiv:1701.08536, arXiv:1707.06152, arXiv:1707.06154

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