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We study consistent truncations of M-theory to gauged N = 2 supergravity in four dimensions, based on a large class of SU(3)-structures in seven dimensions. We show that the gauging involves isometries of the vector multiplet scalar manifold as well as the Heisenberg algebra and a special isometry of the hyperscalar manifold. As a result, non-abelian gauge groups and new non-trivial scalar potentials are generated. Then we specialize to all homogeneous SU(3)-structures supporting supersymmetric AdS4 vacua. These are the Stiefel manifold V 5,2, the Aloff-Wallach spaces N (k, l), the seven-sphere (seen as SU(4)/SU(3) or Sp(2)/Sp(1)) and the M 110 and Q 111 coset spaces. For each of these cases, we describe in detail the N = 2 model and discuss its peculiarities.
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Cassani, D., Koerber, P. & Varela, O. All homogeneous N = 2 M-theory truncations with supersymmetric AdS4 vacua. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 173 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2012)173
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