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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Equivariant Localization in Supergravity
Pietro Benetti Genolini1, Jerome P Gauntlett2, James Sparks3
1Department of Mathematics, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We show that supersymmetric supergravity solutions with an R-symmetry Killing vector are equipped with a set of equivariantly closed forms. Various physical observables may be expressed as integrals of these forms, and then evaluated using the Berline-Vergne-Atiyah-Bott fixed point theorem. We illustrate with a variety of holographic examples, including on-shell actions, black hole entropies, central charges, and scaling dimensions of operators. The resulting expressions depend only on topological data and the R-symmetry vector, and hence may be evaluated without solving the supergravity equations.
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