New supersymmetric flux vacua with intermediate SU(2) structure

TL;DR

This paper discovers new supersymmetric Minkowski flux vacua in type II string theory on nilmanifolds and solvmanifolds, extending previous work to include intermediate SU(2) structures with mixed orientifold projections.

Contribution

It introduces a new approach using projection basis variables to find three novel vacua with intermediate SU(2) structures in string compactifications.

Findings

Found three new supersymmetric flux vacua.

Reformulated SUSY conditions using projection basis variables.

Provided insights into dynamical SU(3) x SU(3) structures.

Abstract

We find new supersymmetric four-dimensional Minkowski flux vacua of type II string theory on nilmanifolds and solvmanifolds. We extend the results of M. Grana, R. Minasian, M. Petrini, and A. Tomasiello to the case of intermediate SU(2) structures (the two internal supersymmetry parameters are neither parallel nor orthogonal). As pointed out recently by P. Koerber and D. Tsimpis, intermediate SU(2) structures are possible when one considers "mixed" orientifold projection conditions. To find our vacua, we rewrite these projection conditions in a more tractable way by introducing new variables: the projection basis. In these variables, the SUSY conditions become also much simpler to solve, and we find three new vacua. In addition, we find that these variables correspond to the SU(2) structure appearing with the dielectric pure spinors, objects introduced and discussed by R. Minasian, M. Petrini, A. Zaffaroni, and N. Halmagyi, A. Tomasiello, in the AdS/CFT context. Besides, our solutions provide some intuition on what a dynamical SU(3) x SU(3) structure solution could look like.