Compatibility of non-generic supersymmetries and geometric duality for a subclass of generalized pp-wave metrics

Abstract

Spinning point particle theories accommodate non-generic supercharges in connection with the existence of Killing-Yano tensors. Killing-Yano tensors of order two and three and their corresponding Killing tensors are found for a subclass of generalized pp-wave metrics. These metrics include the pp-wave itself, its possible generalizations and the Siklos metric which is conformal to that. The compatibility between geometric duality and non-generic symmetries is discussed within the context of the metric solutions. It is found that some of the metric solutions admit anti-de Sitter spacetimes while some are found to be purely radiative.