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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Hidden supersymmetry of domain walls and cosmologies
Kostas Skenderis1, Paul K Townsend
1Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
We show that all domain-wall solutions of gravity coupled to scalar fields for which the world-volume geometry is Minkowski or anti-de Sitter admit Killing spinors, and satisfy corresponding first-order equations involving a superpotential determined by the solution. By analytic continuation, all flat or closed Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker cosmologies are shown to satisfy similar first-order equations arising from the existence of "pseudo Killing" spinors.
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