S^3 and S^4 Reductions of Type IIA Supergravity

A. Sadrzadeh; C.N. Pope; H. Lu; M. Cvetic; T.A. Tran

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S^3 and S^4 Reductions of Type IIA Supergravity

M. Cvetic, H. Lu, C.N. Pope, A. Sadrzadeh, T.A. Tran

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 15 May 2000 · 31 references

Pith's verdict: A real new result — full SO(4) S^3 reduction of IIA — built by inheritance from the S^4 reduction, with the announced direct check left undone.

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CitationA. Sadrzadeh, C.N. Pope, H. Lu, M. Cvetic, T.A. Tran. "S^3 and S^4 Reductions of Type IIA Supergravity." arXiv:hep-th/0005137 (2000). https://pith.science/paper/DCY2LQVS

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Bottom line: the new thing here is real. This keeps all of SO(4) ~ SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R in the S^3 reduction of IIA, not just the left-acting SU(2) that [28] and [31] kept, and that is what makes the seven-dimensional theory maximally supersymmetric. The construction is a scaling limit of the known S^4 reduction of D=11, and the algebra is laid out in full rather than sketched. Worth having in the literature. What is done well: the SO(4)-gauged D=7 equations and Lagrangian (29)-(39) are written out completely, the field rescalings (22) and the coordinate rescaling (41) are explicit, and the resulting metric and dilaton Ansätze (46)-(47) match [16] exactly. That match is independent support for the NS-NS sector and is the strongest evidence in the paper. The §2.3 analysis of why the g→0 limit is smooth in the equations of motion but not in the Lagrangian is a useful piece of bookkeeping, and it is the right cautionary example to keep in view. Where it is soft: the stress-test concern lands. §4.2 announces a direct substitution of (46)-(52) into the IIA equations (57) and then never reports it — section 5 simply begins. So the claim that the λ→0 limit commutes with the D=11→D=10 circle reduction is asserted, not shown. The authors' own §2.3 example is exactly a case where a singular limit is smooth in the equations and not in the Lagrangian, so smoothness of the D=7 equations (29)-(35) does not by itself settle it. The metric and dilaton are covered by [16]; the form-field Ansätze (51)-(52) are new and unverified. Second, §5 says the explicit F(4) and F(3) Ansätze for the S^4 reduction of IIA are 'easily written down by inspection' and omits them, even though the abstract claims that reduction as a result — a real gap between abstract and body. Third, the D=11 Einstein equation is not checked for the full Ansatz, which the authors state, and footnote 4 concedes [2] neglects quartic fermions. All inherited, all acknowledged. None of this breaks the central claim; the inheritance argument is reasonable and the authors are upfront about every gap. But the paper would be materially stronger with the §4.2 check actually carried out, or with the claim narrowed to 'NS-NS sector verified, R-R sector by inheritance.' Who it is for: people working on sphere reductions, domain-wall/QFT, and seven-dimensional gauged supergravity. It is a reference paper, not a surprising one. Recommendation: send it out. The result is new and the gaps are the kind a referee can press on specifically.

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If correct, the S^3 result is a genuine addition to the short list of 'remarkable' sphere reductions for which no group-theoretic consistency argument exists, and it supplies a maximal D=7 gauged supergravity with a domain-wall rather than AdS ground state, of use for the domain-wall/QFT correspondence. Several internal checks are strong and should be credited: the retained field content (14 scalars, 10 vectors, 5 3-forms) is exactly that of maximal D=7 supergravity; the metric and dilaton Ansätze (46)-(47) independently reproduce the results of [16]; and the D=7 limiting equations (29)-(35) are computed explicitly rather than asserted. The paper is also candid that the eleven-dimensional Einstein equation has not been fully checked (Section 2.2, footnote 4), so the inheritance chain from [2] is compelling evidence rather than a rigorous theorem.

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[Section 4.2, Eqs. (55)-(57)] Section 4.2 announces a direct verification of the S^3 Ansatz: after writing the type IIA Lagrangian and equations of motion (55)-(57), it states that the Ansatz 'can now be substituted into the type IIA equations of motion, to verify that it indeed leads to the equations of motion for the SO(4)-gauged seven-dimensional theory constructed in section 3.' That substitution is never carried out; the section ends and Section 5 begins. This matters because the paper's own Section 2.3 exhibits precisely the failure mode that makes such a check non-redundant: the g -> 0 limit is smooth in the equations of motion but not in the Lagrangian. The reader therefore cannot assume that the lambda -> 0 limit commutes with the D=11 -> D=10 circle reduction on mu-tilde^0. The authors should either perform the check or state explicitly that consistency rests solely on inheritance from [2], together with a clear argument for why the limit preserves it (for lambda != 0 the rescalings are exact field redefinitions, and Section 3 shows the D=7 equations have a regular limit, so the limiting D=11 Ansatz should be consistent by continuity). As it stands the logical status of the central claim is left implicit.
[Section 5, Eqs. (66)-(71)] The abstract claims as a result that the paper obtains 'the consistent S^4 reduction of type IIA supergravity, which gives an SO(5)-gauged maximal supergravity in D=6.' Section 5 gives the metric, dilaton and 1-form Ansätze (66)-(67) but then states of the F(4) and F(3) Ansätze that 'We shall not present the results explicitly here, since they are rather complicated, and are easily written down by inspection if required.' Without these form-field Ansätze the claimed reduction cannot be checked or used, and the identities (71) are not a substitute. The authors should supply the explicit F(4) and F(3) expressions, at least in an appendix, or else soften the abstract's claim to indicate that the form-field Ansatz is left implicit.

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[Eqs. (22)-(23)] Eq. (23) is presented as the inverse of (22), but with the stated definitions the product T T^{-1} has (0,beta) component lambda^5 (chi^beta - M^{-1 alpha beta} chi^alpha), which vanishes only if chi is an eigenvector of M. The correct inverse of (22) is T_{00} = lambda^8 Phi^{-1} + lambda^8 chi^alpha M_{alpha beta} chi^beta, T_{0 alpha} = -lambda^3 M_{alpha beta} chi^beta, T_{alpha beta} = lambda^{-2} M_{alpha beta}. The physics is unaffected because (22) is the internal metric read off from (43), but the printed (23) should be corrected.
[Eqs. (39)-(40)] Eq. (39) lists the term -5/16 Phi^{-2} *dPhi ^ dPhi, while Eq. (40), described as the scalar part of the same Lagrangian, lists -1/4 Phi^{-2} *dPhi ^ dPhi. These should agree; please reconcile the two coefficients and check them against the M-kinetic term of (39) with M = Phi^{1/4} M-tilde.
[Eqs. (29)-(31)] The second line of (30) begins 'F-tilde^{alpha(4)} = ...', but F^alpha_{(4)} is defined in (31) as D-tilde G^alpha_{(3)}, and the quantity determined by the first-order equation should be H-tilde^alpha_{(4)}. In addition, the chi^alpha dS-tilde^0_{(3)} term appearing in (29) does not appear in (30), so the two equations are not manifestly consistent. Please clarify the notation and the relation between (29) and (30).
[Section 5, final paragraph] The text says the six-dimensional theory follows from an S^1 reduction of the SO(5)-gauged D=7 theory 'whose bosonic Lagrangian is given in (39)'. Eq. (39) is the SO(4)-gauged Lagrangian; the SO(5)-gauged one is (11).
[Eq. (39)] The Chern-Simons-type term Omega-tilde_{(7)} is not given, so the claim that (39) generates the equations (29)-(35) cannot be checked. At minimum its defining variation, analogous to (13) for Omega_{(7)}, should be stated.
[References and typography] There are several typographical slips: 'subsititute' in Section 3, 'An¨ atze' throughout, 'Brandenhuber' for 'Brandhuber' in ref. [14], and a comma for a period in 'H, L¨ u' in ref. [7]. These should be corrected in the final version.

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The paper claims that type IIA supergravity can be consistently reduced on a 3-sphere while retaining the full SO(4) Yang-Mills gauge group, yielding a maximal gauged supergravity in seven dimensions.

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The paper sets out to show that ten-dimensional type IIA supergravity admits a consistent Kaluza-Klein reduction on $S^3$ that keeps the entire $SO(4)$ isometry group as massless Yang-Mills gauge fields. The payoff would be a maximal seven-dimensional gauged supergravity whose most symmetric ground state is a domain wall rather than anti-de Sitter space. The authors do not prove this from scratch; they obtain it as a singular scaling limit of the known $S^4$ reduction of eleven-dimensional supergravity, in which the internal 4-sphere degenerates to $mathbb{R}times S^3$. They also construct the parallel $S^4$ reduction of type IIA to six dimensions, giving an $SO(5)$-gauged maximal theory.

What carries the argument

The mechanism carrying the argument is a matched rescaling of the seven-dimensional fields and of the internal $S^4$ coordinates. The scaling sends $mu^0to0$ and leaves $mu^alpha$ on a unit $S^3$, while the gauge coupling and gauge fields are rescaled so that an $SO(4)$ subgroup survives. This turns the $SO(5)$-gauged equations into $SO(4)$-gauged equations with no singular terms, and it turns the eleven-dimensional $S^4$ Ansatz into an $S^3$ reduction Ansatz for type IIA. For the separate $S^4$ reduction of type IIA, the key technical step is completing the square in the eleven-dimensional metric after a circle reduction, which produces the ten-dimensional dilaton, metric, and one-form Ansatz in terms of six-dimensional fields and axions.

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Core claim

The central claim is that type IIA supergravity admits a consistent reduction on $S^3$ in which the whole $SO(4)simeq SU(2)_Ltimes SU(2)_R$ isometry is gauged, not merely one $SU(2)$. The authors obtain it by starting from the $S^4$ reduction of eleven-dimensional supergravity and taking a singular limit of the resulting seven-dimensional $SO(5)$-gauged theory: split the index as $i=(0,alpha)$, scale $g=lambda^2 tilde g$, $A^{0alpha}=lambda^3 tilde A^{0alpha}$, $A^{alphabeta}=lambda^{-2}tilde A^{alphabeta}$, and scale the internal coordinate as $mu^0=lambda^5 tilde mu^0$ with $mu^alpha=tilde mu^alpha$. As $lambdato0$ the constraint $mu^i mu^i=1$ becomes $tilde mu^alpha tilde mu^alpha=1$, so the internal $S^4$ degenerates to $mathbb{R}times S^3$; the seven-dimensional equations have a smooth $SO(4)$-gauged limit even though the Lagrangian does not. Reading the same limit in eleven dimensions gives the $S^3$ reduction Ansatz for the type IIA metric, dilaton, one-form, and form fields. The paper also performs the non-singular $S^4$ reduction of type IIA to a six-dimensional $SO(5)$-gauged maximal supergravity.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the starting 4-sphere reduction of eleven-dimensional supergravity is genuinely consistent, including in the eleven-dimensional Einstein equation and beyond the approximation that drops quartic fermion terms.

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If this is right

If the reduction is consistent, every solution of the seven-dimensional $SO(4)$-gauged equations lifts to a configuration of type IIA supergravity.
The seven-dimensional theory is maximal and has a domain-wall ground state, so it provides a setting for domain-wall/QFT correspondence rather than standard AdS/CFT.
The parallel $S^4$ reduction gives an $SO(5)$-gauged maximal supergravity in six dimensions.
The construction adds an example of a sphere reduction whose consistency has no known group-theoretic explanation, sharpening the question of why such reductions work.

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If the construction holds, the next natural check is whether the seven-dimensional domain-wall solutions and their scalar fluctuations reproduce the expected Coulomb-branch behavior of the dual quantum field theory beyond the Cartan subsector.
The axion-dependent metric Ansatz in (64)-(67) suggests a general recipe for completing the square in other sphere reductions that involve vector axions.
An independent verification of the eleven-dimensional Einstein equation for the starting $S^4$ Ansatz would settle both the seven-dimensional and six-dimensional claims at once.

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We construct a consistent reduction of type IIA supergravity on S^3, leading to a maximal gauged supergravity in seven dimensions with the full set of massless SO(4) Yang-Mills fields. We do this by starting with the known S^4 reduction of eleven-dimensional supergravity, and showing that it is possible to take a singular limit of the resulting standard SO(5)-gauged maximal supergravity in seven dimensions, whose eleven-dimensional interpretation involves taking a limit where the internal 4-sphere degenerates to RxS^3. This allows us to reinterpret the limiting SO(4)-gauged theory in seven dimensions as the S^3 reduction of type IIA supergravity. We also obtain the consistent S^4 reduction of type IIA supergravity, which gives an SO(5)-gauged maximal supergravity in D=6.

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We construct a consistent reduction of type IIA supergravity on S^3, leading to a maximal gauged supergravity in seven dimensions with the full set of massless SO(4) Yang-Mills fields. We do this by starting with the known S^4 reduction of eleven-dimensional supergravity, and showing that it is possible to take a singular limit of the resulting standard SO(5)-gauged maximal supergravity in seven dimensions, whose eleven-dimensional interpretation involves taking a limit where the internal 4-sphere degenerates to RxS^3. This allows us to reinterpret the limiting SO(4)-gauged theory in seven dimensions as the S^3 reduction of type IIA supergravity. We also obtain the consistent S^4 reduction of type IIA supergravity, which gives an SO(5)-gauged maximal supergravity in D=6.

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The equations of motion for $D=7$ gauged supergravity arising from [ref] are given by [equation] and [equation] where [equation] We note that a typo in [ref] has been fixed in the last equation of [ref].

Consistent KK truncations for M5-branes wrapped on Riemann surfaces · Equations of motion of $D=7$ gauged supergravity · contest 0.87

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Moreover, our derivation clarifies longstanding technical issues encountered in consistent Kaluza-Klein reductions on spheres and offers a general formalism that complements and extends the results found in prior literature such as [ref] .

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Using the uplift formulas of [ref] one finds that the ten-dimensional solution in the string frame can be written as 10dsolNSNS _10 =(^1,5)+^2Φ[∑_i=1^4(^-2f_i(μ_i)^2)s^2 s^2+∑_i=1^4(^2f_i(μ_i)^2)] , H_3 =-2⋆[Φ∧(^1,5)] , ^2Φ =16/g^2∏_i=1^4^-f_i/∑_i=1^4(^-2f_i(μ_i)^2) , where $∑_i(μ_i)^2=1$ hence the $μ_i$ parametrize $S^3⊂^4$.

On Supergravity and Noncritical Strings · Distributions of NS5 branes from 7d · 0.97
Here we need to introduce $μ^a$, $a=1,…,4$ as constrained coordinates on the $S^3$, $δ_ab μ^a μ^b= 1$, a unit determinant symmetric matrix[Note that what we call $M_ab$ is denoted $M^-1_αβ$ in [ref] .] $M_ab$ with inverse $M^ab$, and define [equation] Then the ansatz is [equation] where $D μ^a ≡dμ^a + g A_(1)^ab μ^b$, $D M^ab = d M^ab + 2 g A_(1)^(a|c M^c|b)$ and $F_(2)^ab = d A_(1)^ab +g A_(1)^ac ∧A_(1)^cb$.

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In this work, we will mainly consider uplifted solutions from these two gauge groups using the truncation ansatze given in [ref] which are more useful for solutions involving two- and three-form fields in seven dimensions.

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Instead, let us investigate the relationship to the known $CSO(4,0,1)$ gauging arising from reduction of type IIA on $S^3$, or 11-dimensional supergravity on $ℝ×S^3$ [ref] .

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On the other hand, all of the supersymmetry is manifest in the frame $$, and reducing 10d supergravity on $S^3$ does indeed give rise to a supergravity in 7d [ref] .

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The relationship between $= (1,0)$ supergravity coupled to one anti-self-dual tensor multiplet in six dimensions and the three-dimensional $4$, $SO(4,4)$ supergravity (with $n=1$) has been laid out in [ref] .

Microstate Geometries from Gauged Supergravity in Three Dimensions · Some supergravity background · 0.80
The classical examples of Scherk-Schwartz reductions [ref] on local group manifolds [ref] , together with the exceptional consistent truncations on spheres [ref] were unified as generalised Scherk-Schwartz reductions[For other examples of the use of generalised geometry and exceptional field theory in the context of generalised Scherk-Schwartz reductions, see [ref] . ] in [ref] using the language of generalised geometry.

Adjoint orbits, generalised parallelisable spaces and consistent truncations · Introduction · 0.94
Generic consistent $S^3$ truncations in (super)gravity have been discussed in [ref] , where the full non-linear Kaluza-Klein Ansätze were constructed for a higher-dimensional theory that comprises the field content of the bosonic string.

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