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a r X i v : h e p - t h / 0 3 0 6 0 0 9 v 3 7 O c t 2 0 0 3 KEK-TH-889 hep-th/0306009 IIB PP-Waves with Extra Supersymmetries Makoto Sakaguchi Theory Division, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, JAPAN Makoto.Sakaguchi@kek.jp Abstract We examine Killing spinor equations of the general IIB pp-wave backgrounds, which contain a scalar H(xm, x?) in the metric and a self-dual four-form ξ(xm, x?) in the self-dual five-form flux. Considering non-harmonic extra Killing spinors, we find that if the backgrounds admit at least one extra Killing spinor in addition to 16 standard Killing spinors, backgrounds can be reduced to the form with H = Amn(x ?)xmxn and ξ(x?), modulo coordinate transformations. We examine further the cases in which the extra Killing spinors are characterized by a set of Cartan matrices. Solving Killing spinor equations, we find IIB pp-wave backgrounds which admit 18, 20, 24 and 32 Killing spinors. 1 Introduction After the advent of the maximally supersymmetric IIB pp-wave background [1], pp-wave backgrounds have attracted renewed interests among other supergravity solutions. It was shown [2] that the Green-Schwarz superstring on the maximally supersymmetric IIB pp- wave background is exactly solvable in the light-cone gauge and the full string spectrum has been obtained. Considering the large N limit corresponding to the Penrose limit [3], AdS/CFT correspondence has been examined [4] beyond the supergravity level. General pp-wave solutions of IIB supergravity admit at least sixteen standard Killing spinors. At a special point in the moduli space, the background turns out to be the max- imally supersymmetric pp-wave solution [1] which admits sixteen extra Killing spinors in addition to the sixteen standard Killing spinors, and thus maximal thirty-two supersym- metries. This background is a Penrose limit of the AdS5 × S5 background [5], and the corresponding super-isometry algebras are related [6] by