On the generalized Komar charge of supersymmetric solutions

Abstract

We consider the supersymmetric solutions of several supergravity theories (ungauged $\mathcal{N}=2,d=4$ and $\mathcal{N}=1,d=5$ supergravities coupled to vector supermultiplets and pure $\mathcal{N}=1,d=10$ supergravity) and show that their generalized Komar charges vanish identically for the supersymmetric Killing vector which is constructed as a bilinear of the Killing spinors of those solutions. This property can be used to prove the supersymmetry (``BPS'') bounds satisfied by some of those solutions in a rigorous, coordinate-independent way.

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