On warped string vacuum profiles and cosmologies. Part I. Supersymmetric strings

We investigate in detail solutions of supergravity that involve warped products of flat geometries of the type Mp+1× R × TD−p−2 depending on a single coordinate. In the absence of fluxes, the solutions include flat space and Kasner-like vacua that break all supersymmetries. In the presence of a symmetric flux, there are three families of solutions that are characterized by a pair of boundaries and have a singularity at one of them, the origin. The first family comprises supersymmetric vacua, which capture a universal limiting behavior at the origin. The first and second families also contain non-supersymmetric solutions whose behavior at the other boundary, which can lie at a finite or infinite distance, is captured by the no-flux solutions. The solutions of the third family have a second boundary at a finite distance where they approach again the supersymmetric backgrounds. These vacua exhibit a variety of interesting scenarios, which include compactifications on finite intervals and p + 1-dimensional effective theories where the string coupling has an upper bound. We also build corresponding cosmologies, and in some of them the string coupling can be finite throughout the evolution.

On warped string vacuum profiles and cosmologies. Part II. Non-supersymmetric strings

We investigate the effects of the leading tadpole potentials of 10D tachyon-free non-supersymmetric strings in warped products of flat geometries of the type Mp+1× R × T10−p−2 depending on a single coordinate. In the absence of fluxes and for p < 8, there are two families of these vacua for the orientifold disk-level potential, both involving a finite internal interval. Their asymptotics are surprisingly captured by tadpole-free solutions, isotropic for one family and anisotropic at one end for the other. In contrast, for the heterotic torus-level potential there are four types of vacua. Their asymptotics are always tadpole-dependent and isotropic at one end lying at a finite distance, while at the other end, which can lie at a finite or infinite distance, they can be tadpole-dependent isotropic or tadpole-free anisotropic. We then elaborate on the general setup for including symmetric fluxes, and present the three families of exact solutions that emerge when the orientifold potential and a seven-form flux are both present. These solutions include a pair of boundaries, which are always separated by a finite distance. In the neighborhood of one, they all approach a common supersymmetric limit, while the asymptotics at the other boundary can be tadpole-free isotropic, tadpole-free anisotropic or again supersymmetric. We also discuss corresponding cosmologies, with emphasis on their climbing or descending behavior at the initial singularity. In some cases the toroidal dimensions can contract during the cosmological expansion.

Some geometric obstructions to warped product immersions in locally conformal Kaehler space forms

Being motivated by a well-known Nash’s embedding theorem, Chen introduced a method to discover the relationship for the extrinsic invariants controlled by the intrinsic one. In this paper, we extend Chen’s inequality for the intrinsic and extrinsic invariants for pointwise bi-slant warped products in locally conformal Kaehler space forms with quarter-symmetric and semi-symmetric connections. The equality case of the inequality is also investigated. Several applications of the inequality are given. Furthermore, we provide two non-trivial examples of such immersions.

A General Inequality for CR-Warped Products in Generalized Sasakian Space Form and Its Applications

In the present paper, by considering the Gauss equation in place of the Codazzi equation, we derive new optimal inequality for the second fundamental form of CR-warped product submanifolds into a generalized Sasakian space form. Moreover, the inequality generalizes some inequalities for various ambient space forms.

Gradient Ricci-harmonic solitons on multiply warped products

In this paper, we find the necessary and sufficient conditions for a multiply warped product to be a gradient Ricci-harmonic soliton. We also investigate the necessary and sufficient conditions for a multiply generalized Robertson–Walker space-time and a generalized Reissner–Nordström space-time to be a gradient Ricci-harmonic soliton.