Another infinite tri-Sasaki family and marginal deformations

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new family of tri-Sasaki Einstein metrics derived from quaternion Kähler 4-spaces, explores their properties, and extends them to supergravity backgrounds with applications in string theory.

Contribution

It constructs explicit tri-Sasaki Einstein metrics over twistor spaces of quaternion Kähler 4-spaces and analyzes their extensions to supergravity backgrounds with T^3 isometry.

Findings

Explicit tri-Sasaki metrics over twistor spaces are derived.

Some metrics have weak G2 holonomy after squashing.

Examples include backgrounds with AdS4×X7 near horizon limits.

Abstract

Several Einstein-Sasaki 7-metrics appearing in the physical literature are fibered over four dimensional Kahler-Einstein metrics. Instead we consider here the natural Kahler-Einstein metrics defined over the twistor space Z of any quaternion Kahler 4-space, together with the corresponding Einstein-Sasaki metrics. We work out an explicit expression for these metrics and we prove that they are indeed tri-Sasaki. Moreover, we present an squashed version of them which is of weak $G_2$ holonomy. We focus in examples with three commuting Killing vectors and we extend them to supergravity backgrounds with $T^3$ isometry, some of them with $AdS_4\times X_7$ near horizon limit and some others without this property. We would like to emphasize that there is an underlying linear structure describing these spaces. We also consider the effect of the $SL(2,R)$ solution generating technique presented by Maldacena and Lunin to these backgrounds and we find some rotating membrane configurations reproducing the E-S logarithmic behaviour.