Regular non-Abelian vacua in N=4, SO(4) gauged supergravity -: art. no. 086007

We present a family of globally regular N=1 vacua in the D=4, N=4 gauged supergravity of Gates and Zwiebach. These solutions are labeled by the ratio xi of the two gauge couplings, and for xi=0 they reduce to the supergravity monopole previously used for constructing the gravity dual of N=1 super Yang-Mills theory. For xi>0 the solutions are asymptotically anti- de Sitter, but with an excess of the solid angle, and they reduce exactly to anti-de Sitter for xi=1. Solutions with xi<0 are topologically R(1)xS(3), and for xi=-2 they become R(1)xS(3) geometrically. All solutions with xinot equal0 can be promoted to D=11 to become vacua of M-theory.