Supersymmetries and Hopf-duality in the Penrose limit of AdS3 × S3 × T4

Jin Ho Cho, Taejin Lee, Soonkeon Nam

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Abstract

We investigate various aspects of the plane wave geometries obtained from D1/D5-brane system. We study the effect of Hopf-duality on the supersymmetries preserved by the Penrose limit of AdS3 × S3 × T4 geometry. In type-IIB case, we first show that the Penrose limit makes the size of the 'would-be' internal torus comparable to that of the other directions. Based on this observation, we consider, in taking the Penrose limit, the generalization of the null geodesic to incorporate the tilted direction between the equator of S3 and one of the torus directions. For generic values of the tilting angle, supersymmetries are not preserved. When the limit is taken along the torus direction, 16 supersymmetries are preserved. For the ordinary Penrose limit, 16 generic and 8 'supernumerary' supersymmetries are observed. In the Penrose limit of Hopf-dualized type-IIA geometry, only 4 supersymmetries are preserved. We classify all the Killing spinors according to their periodic properties along some relevant coordinates.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3-23
Number of pages21
JournalNuclear Physics B
Volume650
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Feb 2003

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank Sangmin Lee and Hyeonjoon Shin for stimulating discussions. J.H.C. (Project No. R01-2000-00021) and T.L. (Project No. R01-2000-00015) are supported in part by KOSEF. S.N. is supported by Korea Research Foundation Grant KRF-2001-041-D00049 and by BK21 Program of Korea Research Fund.

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