Domain Walls and Massive Gauged Supergravity Potentials

TL;DR

This paper explores supersymmetric domain wall solutions in massive gauged supergravity, revealing hybrid structures with unique gravitational properties and potential stabilization mechanisms, contrasting with massless scalar cases.

Contribution

It demonstrates the existence of supersymmetric domain walls in massive gauged supergravity and analyzes their properties, including stability and gravitational behavior, unlike massless scalar scenarios.

Findings

Hybrid domain wall structures with distinct gravitational regimes.

Massive breathing modes can stabilize walls via Goldberger-Wise mechanism.

Contrasts with massless scalar supergravity potentials and their maxima.

Abstract

We point out that massive gauged supergravity potentials, for example those arising due to the massive breathing mode of sphere reductions in M-theory or string theory, allow for supersymmetric (static) domain wall solutions which are a hybrid of a Randall-Sundrum domain wall on one side, and a dilatonic domain wall with a run-away dilaton on the other side. On the anti-de Sitter (AdS) side, these walls have a repulsive gravity with an asymptotic region corresponding to the Cauchy horizon, while on the other side the runaway dilaton approaches the weak coupling regime and a non-singular attractive gravity, with the asymptotic region corresponding to the boundary of spacetime. We contrast these results with the situation for gauged supergravity potentials for massless scalar modes, whose supersymmetric AdS extrema are generically maxima, and there the asymptotic regime transverse to the wall corresponds to the boundary of the AdS spacetime. We also comment on the possibility that the massive breathing mode may, in the case of fundamental domain-wall sources, stabilize such walls via a Goldberger-Wise mechanism.