Central extension of extended supergravities in diverse dimensions

被引:28
作者
Andrianopoli, L
DAuria, R
Ferrara, S
机构
[1] IST NAZL FIS NUCL, I-16146 GENOA, ITALY
[2] POLITECN TORINO, DIPARTIMENTO FIS, I-10129 TURIN, ITALY
[3] IST NAZL FIS NUCL, I-10125 TURIN, ITALY
[4] CERN, DIV THEORET PHYS, CH-1211 GENEVA 23, SWITZERLAND
来源
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A | 1997年 / 12卷 / 21期
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10.1142/S0217751X97001936
中图分类号
O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
学科分类号
070202 ;
摘要
We generalize central-charge relations and differential identities of N = 2 special geometry to N extended supergravity in any dimension 4 less than or equal to D < 10, and p-extended objects. We study the extremization of the ADM mass per unit of p-volume of BPS extended objects. Runaway solutions for a ''dilaton'' degree of freedom leading to a vanishing result are interpreted as BPS extremal states having vanishing Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.
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页码:3759 / 3773
页数:15
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