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arxiv: hep-th/9704186 · v2 · pith:7WAL3UIFnew · submitted 1997-04-25 · ✦ hep-th

Supersymmetry without Supersymmetry

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords supersymmetrybranesstringtheoryvacuaappearbosonscharge
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We present four-dimensional M-theory vacua with N>0 supersymmetry which, from the perspective of perturbative Type IIA string theory, have N=0. Such vacua can appear when the compactifying 7-manifold is a U(1) fibration. The missing superpartners are Dirichlet 0-branes. Someone unable to detect Ramond-Ramond charge would thus conclude that these worlds have no unbroken supersymmetry. In particular, the gravitinos (and also some of the gauge bosons) are 0-branes not seen in perturbation theory but which curiously remain massless however weak the string coupling.

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